Busse Library provides the following list of online resources and of items from its collection about America's Japanese internment camps during World War II. In the early months of the war, almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced out of their homes and into detention camps created by the U.S. federal government. Some of the victims would remain in the camps for the next three years in one of the worst civil rights violations in American history.
Gateways to History: The Camps
- Ansel Adams' Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manazar: The Library of Congress, American Memory Collection
- ARC Gallery: Japanese American Experiences During World War II: The National Archives
- "Children of the Camps": PBS -- 2003 documentary with focus on camps' youngest members
- Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII Japanese American Relocation Sites -- National Park Service
- "Conscience and the Constitution" -- film that documents organized resistance to internment
- "Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp." A Project of the Smithsonian Institution and the Japanese American National Museum
- Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
- Digital History: Explorations: Japanese-American Internment: University of Houston -- features short, silent film of relocation process
- Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese: The Virtual Museum of San Francisco -- features historical newspaper coverage
- Executive Order 9066: The Authorization for Japanese Relocation -- full text of legislation
- The Internment of Japanese Americans of the Santa Clara Valley: Japanese American Resource Center, San Jose, California
- Japanese American Internment Memorial: San Jose, California
- Japanese American Internment Resource Library: Asian American Studies Institute -- bibliographies for primary and secondary level teachers
- The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA): University of California
- Manazar National Historic Site: U.S. National Park Service
- A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Memory
- The War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II: The Truman Library
- War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945: Online Archive of California (OAC)
- The War Relocation Centers of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger Than Justice: National Park Service -- includes map of camp centers
America's Internment Camps
- Houston, Jeanne Wakatskui, and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manazar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After World War II Internment. 2002. [D769.8.A6 H68 2002]
- Irons, Peter H., ed. Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases. 1989. [KF7224.5 .J87 1989]
- Kashima, Tetsuden. Judgment Without Trial: Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II. c2003. [D769.8.A6 K37 2003]
- Lange, Dorothea. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. c2006. [D769.8.A6 L35 2006]
- Ng, Wendy. Japanese Internment During World War II: A History and Reference Guide. 2002. [D769.8.A6 N4 2002]
- Omori, Emiko. Rabbit in the Moon. 1999. [Video D 769.8 .A6 R33]
- Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. 2001. [D769.8.A6 R63 2001]
- Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz. c1993. [D769.8.A6 T39 1993]
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