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Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans Paperback – January 1, 1992

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Nonfiction. Prefaces by Michael McCone and Don T. Nakanishi. The days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were dark days of the American spirit. Unable to strike back effectively against the Japanese Empire , Americans in the Western states lashed out at fellow citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, was the instrument that allowed military commanders to designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in the interior. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, who represented the Department of Justice in the "relocation," writes in the Epilogue to this book : "The truth is--as this deplorable experience proves--that constitutions and laws are not sufficient of themselves. Despite the unequivocal language of the Constitution of the United States that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, and despite the Fifth Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, both of these constitutional safeguards were denied by military action under Executive Order 9066."

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"Edison Uno, an American-born Japanese active in American-Japanese organizations, writes an introduction to this collection of photographs, and former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark writes an epilogue on a seldom discussed, because little known, domestic scandal that took place in this country during World War II on the Pacific Seaboard.... The 62 photographs, most of them taken by Dorothea Lange, are in many cases accompanied by quotations from newspapers, the Congressional Record, and from books and treatises on the disgrace.... The landscapes pain the beholder's eyes, the portraits break his heart."
—Jean Stafford, Book World

"Ancestral pharaohs, I'm told, placed a mummy at the foot of their banquet tables to remind themselves of their mortality. Executive Order 9066 should be on every American's bookshelf: to remind him of the fragility of democratic justice."
—Nelson Algren, Los Angeles Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were dark days of the American spirit. Unable to strike back effectively against the Japanese Empire, Americans in the Western states lashed out at fellow citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry.

Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, was the instrument that allowed military commanders to designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in the interior. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, who represented the Department of Justice in the "relocation", writes in the Epilogue to this book:

The truth is--as this deplorable experience proves--that constitutions and laws are not sufficient of themselves. . .Despite the unequivocal language of the Constitution of the United States that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, and despite the Fifth Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, both of these constitutional safeguards were denied by military action under Executive Order 9066. . .

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Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press; Reprint. edition (January 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0934052190
ISBN-13: 978-0934052191
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
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Belongs in every high school and public library

ByR. M. PetersonTOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon December 18, 2011

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On February 19, 1942 - seventy-four days after Pearl Harbor - President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, whereby over the next few months 110,000 Japanese-Americans were sent for the duration of the War to ten internment camps in the hinterlands of the U.S. The "relocation" of these Japanese-Americans, most of them U.S. citizens and born in the U.S., constituted the most blatant disregard of settled constitutional law as applied to a large class of people as any other formal act of the U.S. government in the 20th Century. Even the Supreme Court was overcome by the hysteria of fear and racism.

On the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor, President George H.W. Bush formally acknowledged that the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was "a great injustice" and he vowed that "it will never be repeated." I'm not so optimistic. But widespread perusal of books such as this by the general American citizenry would help guard against any such appalling lapses in the future.

Perusing and absorbing EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 should take most people about an hour. The bulk of the book consists of about sixty photographs taken of the internment enterprise. Most are powerful and moving, some extremely so. For example: a group of Japanese-American girls, with hands over hearts, saying the Pledge of Allegiance in April 1942, a few weeks before they were sent to the camps; a lengthy stream of Japanese-Americans crossing a bridge on Bainbridge Island, Washington, dressed up and toting satchels and being escorted by armed and helmeted soldiers; numerous photos of evacuees with identification tags affixed to their coats awaiting processing; and - the most touching to me - a 23-year-old Japanese-American in the uniform of the U.S. Army standing next to his 53-year-old mother in the strawberry field where she was an agricultural worker (he had been furloughed to help his mother and family prepare for the evacuation).

There also are eighteen pages of text containing five brief essays. Two in particular should not be skipped over: "The Japanese in California", an excellent overview of the historical background of the mass internment; and an Epilogue by Tom C. Clark, retired Supreme Court Justice who in 1942 had served as Civilian Coordinator for the relocation.

Among the many glaring deficiencies of our overall educational system and curriculum is "civics". If I were in charge of education in this country, I would want every graduating high school student to have been exposed to perhaps ten books about what it means to be an American, and EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 might well be one of them. That, of course, is not in the cards, but still the book belongs in every high school and public library (as well as in the private collections of all citizens who take their history and constitutional freedoms seriously).