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Primary Sources "Army Given Rule of All Japs in U.S." Washington Post [Washington D.C] 21 Feb. 1942: 1+.

Microform. Washington Post (1942). This newspaper article was an excellent primary source because it was printed just after Executive Order 9066 was issued. The article was about how Executive Order 9066 affected the United States and the Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. From this newspaper article that was printed less than three months after the invasion on Pearl Harbor I learned about the attitudes towards people of Japanese heritage. Government officials gave their thoughts about the situation and the executive order being issued. This is a reliable source because it is a well-known newspaper from the time period.

"Army Rule for Citizens." San Francisco Chronicle [San Francisco] 21 Feb. 1942: 1+. Microform. San Francisco Chronicle (n.d.). I learned from this newspaper article information about Japanese-Americans who were caught with materials thought to be helpful to the Japanese Empire. This helped my counter argument because it gave examples of multiple incidents that aided the Japanese cause.

Caughey, John, and LaRee Caughey. "Adjusting to War and Peace." Los Angles Biography of a City. N.p.: U of California Press, 1976. 372. Print. In this book there is a there is a section that discusses how people of Japanese heritage are adjusting to the executive order. This is a primary source because I am using a quote from Kato Ento who was a Japanese-American living on the West Coast. This quote from Kato Entos gave his reaction to the internment camps and why he thought he was interned for racist reasons.

Exec. Order No. 9066. 3 C.F.R. 1942. History Matters. Web. 9 Dec. 2013. <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154/>>. This document is the heart of my project because without it none of the internment to the Japanese-Americans would have happened. Once I learned of Executive Order 9066 I was continuously studying it to take out questions to further investigate and research. Executive Order 9066 drives my project and helps me find new information.

"Executive Order 9066." National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, n.d. Web. 14 Jan. 2014. <http://www.nps.gov/manz/historyculture/images/EO9066.jpg>. This is an image of Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942.

Fellowship of Reconciliation. Pamphlet Opposing the Evacuation of the Japanese Citizens on the Basis of Race. N.p.: n.p., 1942. Print. This four page pamphlet provided statistics, quotes, and other information about Japanese-Americans. I got my best quote from here by Ralph Carr (Colorado governor) on loyalty and rights that really sets the stage for the rest of my research to back that statement up. This pamphlet was not biased because it had information from both the governments point of view and Japanese-Americans point.

Human Rights. Fysop Human Rights. N.p., 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 17 Jan. 2014. <http://fysophumanrights.wordpress.com/page/2/>. This picture shows what a person thinks about human rights.

Iritani, Frank, and Joanne Iritani. Ten Visits. San Mateo: Japanese American Curriculum Project, n.d. Print. This pamphlet had information on all of the Japanese relocation centers and documents that the government issued. I only used the documents from the government because it had the Presidents formal apology to the Japanese-Americans and other documents issued by the government throughout the internment process.

"Korematsu v. United States (No. 22) 140 F.2d 289, Affirmed." Legal Information Institude. Cornell University, 1992. Web. 5 Dec. 2013. <http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0323_0214_ZO.html>. From this website I found very useful information about the Korematsu v. United States court case. From the website I learned why three of the six justices dissented and used pieces from there dissent in my project. The court case showed that not everyone of authority thought the internment was right. This was a great and reliable site because it is run by a law college which I know is reliable.

Lange, Dorothea. "Barrack Homes." Scooter Dudisms. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2014. <http://scooterdudisms.blogspot.com/2009/11/manzanar-was-one-of-tenconcentration.html>. Picture of a United States of America flag in front of barracks in the Manzanar relocation center, 7/3/42.

"Manzanar, Calif." Public Intelligence. Public Intelligence, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. <http://publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/internment-camps-2.jpg>. This picture shows children walking down a road in the Manzanar relocation camp, June 29, 1942

Nakagawa, Yosh. Personal interview. 11 Jan. 2014. Interviewing Mr. Nakagawa has helped me further understand what Japanese-Americans were going through at the time of the Executive Order being placed, to them returning home from the camps. Mr. Nawagawa was in 4th grade at the time and he recalls how the internment camps changed his life so much and he really gave me a first hand look into all of it.

"The Civil Rights Act of 1988." Digital History. Digital History, n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2014. <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/japanese_internment/internment_men u.cfm>. This picture shows President Bushs Presidential Apology Letter to the JapaneseAmericans. The picture helps me see how the government tried to justify their actions towards people of Japanese heritage.

The Shameful History of WWII Japanese American Internment. Environmental Graffiti. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014. <http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-wwii-japaneseamerican-internment?image=11>. I got three photos from this site. One photo of an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho showing an overall prospective of what a camp looks like. Another picture is of a store that's showing their loyalty by hanging a sign in its window that says I am an American. Finally a photo of Japanese-American kids saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

United States Constitution. Amendment. V, sec. 1, cl. 1. Print. I used the Fourth Amendment as a primary source and used in to defend one of my topics about how the government broke Japanese-Americans constitutional rights. The document helped me because it is a part of the Constitution which I am defending and I know that its a reliable source because it is a government document.

United States Constitution. Amendment. XIV, sec. 1, cl. 2. Print. This document was very important in my research because it is what my first thesis defense revolves around. This helped guide through my research because I was just needed to find evidence to back it up. This document is very reliable because it is a government document. U.S. National Archives. The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese air raid. The History Place. The History Place, 1997. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. <http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm>. This picture shows a ship being blown up during the attack in Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.

Secondary Sources

Brimner, Larry Dane. Voices from the Camps: Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. United States of America: Larry Dane Brimner, 1994. Print. This was the first book about Japanese internment that I read and it was extremely useful in starting off my research. This was the first step I took in my research by getting a base understanding of my topic. I got lots of information on what happened during this event and helped me go and find other information with the sources that the author, Larry Dane Brimner, used and cited. This book provided some great quotes from JapaneseAmericans that were interned.

C, Eleni. "Japanese-American Internment Camps." Japanese-American Internment Camps. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://www.ptla.us/Period7/EleniC.html>. This website gave me a new perspective on what really happened in the internment camps. This website gave specific ideas about the what was really going on in the internment camps. I got an idea on how people handled the change. This website gave me a more in depth look at life in the camps.

Densho. "Causes of the Incarceration." Densho. Densho, n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2014. <http://densho.org/causes/default.asp>. I have learned a lot from this website about what people of Japanese heritage went through during WWII. However this website is biased because it was been written by Japanese-Americans that were in the internment camps.

"Japanese-American Relocation." The History Channel. N.p., 2013. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://www.history.com/topics/japanese-american-relocation>. This site helped me at the beginning of my research to get an idea on how JapaneseAmericans were racially discriminated against. This site is run by the History Channel which made me think it would be a good source, but turned out not to be. It gave me information that was very useful but some that I later started questioning because it did not match up with any other of my research.

LeWarne, Charles P. "The Japanese Relocation." Washington State. N.p.: U of Washington, 1986. 221-22. Print. In this article I found information and statistics about Japanese-Americans living in Washington, and what they were doing in Washington when they where ordered off to the internment camps. I found out where they were located and what Washington citizens thought of the decision. This article wasn't biased because it was all factual evidence.

Robinson, Greg. By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese-Americans. N.p.: Harvard U, 2001. Print. This book was about how President Roosevelt, the government and an overlooked of the Japanese internment camps. This book helped form my counter-argument because it was how the government and President Roosevelt were over-seeing the effect of the executive order. This book was very biased towards people of Japanese-Americans because it was from the governments view.

Siasoco, Ricco Villanueva, and Shmuel Ross. "Japanese Relocation Centers." Info Please. Pearson Education, 2007. Web. 3 Oct. 2013. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html>. This was another one of my first sources and after I read it I knew more about the chronological order of important events from the start of the internment to the formal apology in 1988. This site gave an overall perspective of what life was like in the camps.

"Smithsonian Tour of Congressional Gold Medal Awarded to Japanese American WorldWar II Veterans Makes Next Stop at the JANM." Japanese American National Museum. Japanese American National Museum, 1998. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. <http://www.janm.org/press/release/338/>. In this website I found the specific information I was looking for, which was all the awards that the Japanese-Americans were awarded with in WWII. This source really helped because it was a very trust worthy site and I hadn't been able to find information like this in other sites.

Summers, John, and Laura Beveridge. "Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation." History Matters. Ed. Kelly Schrum and Laura Beveridge. American Social History Project, 1998. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/>. This site gave me more in site on Executive Order #9066 and I learned more about what the order actually did. It also talked about how it effected lots of people. This website was very informative about the law and wasn't biased at all.

Tonai, Rosalyn, Bess Ricketts, and Chizu Iiyama. Constitutional Rights that were Violated during World War II. Japanese American Internment Curriculum. National Japanese American Society, 1992. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://online.sfsu.edu/jaintern/rightsviolated.html>. This website was created by historians to show in their view which of the JapaneseAmericans Constitutional rights were violated. I found them helpful because I then had an idea on what legal rights they had where broken, so that I could further research them.

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights." United Nations. UN Publications, n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2013. <http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/>. This was the perfect website to use in my thesis defense for the human rights that were violated. I put this source as a secondary source because I do not know for sure what it is but because it was on a website I put it as a secondary source. Regardless this site is very dependable because it is a world wide organization.

USHistory.org. "Japanese-American Internment." U.S. History. Independence Hall Association, 2008. Web. 9 Oct. 2013. <http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp>. This website explained to me why some events happened and other less known events that occurred during the process of interning the Japanese-Americans. I found information about what happened to families and their belongings. I also learned what camps were thought of outside of the actual camps.

"WWII: The Japanese American Experience." American Veterans Center. American Veterans Center, 2012. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. <http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/avq/avqissue-ii/wwii-the-japanese-american-experience/>. From this website I learned of how many Japanese-Americans volunteered to serve in the military after the government thought them no long a security risk. It also gave quotes from Japanese-Americans who served in the military and why they chose to serve. I found this website very helpful because it was new information I hadn't explored yet and it was from a very reliable source that represents veterans.

Yu, John. "World War Two - Japanese Internment Camps in the USA." History on the Net. History on the Net, 2000. Web. 3 Oct. 2013. <http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm>. From this website I learned why events happened and where things took place. I also learned about the loyalty test that the Japanese-Americans had to take in order to serve for the military. This source helped me when I was first starting my research and opened up other questions to research.

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