Relocation
All through December 1941 and January and early February 1942, newspapers and radio commentators had continued to spread doubt and fears about the loyalty of people of Japanese ancestry. When they first heard reports on the radio that possibly all Japanese would be moved inland or into detention centers, the Nisei did not believe it. "We are Americans. They could not do that to us." (Oppenheim, 16)
Executive Order 9066
Manzanar Documentary
Internment Camp Locations
Fresno, California
May 6, 1942 – October 30, 1942 Manzanar, California March 21, 1942-June 1, 1942 Marysville, California May 8, 1942-June 29, 1942 Mayer, Arizona May 7, 1942-June 2, 1942 Merced, California May 6, 1942-September 15, 1942 Pinedale, California May 7, 1942-July 23, 1942 Pomona, California May 7, 1942-August 24, 1942 Portland, Oregon May 2, 1942-September 10, 1942 |
Puyallup, Washington
April 28, 1942-September 12, 1942 Sacramento California May 6, 1942-June 26, 1942 Salinas, California April 27, 1942-July 4, 1942 Santa Anita, California March 27, 1942-October 27, 1942 Stockton, California May 10, 1942-October 17, 1942 Tanforan, San Bruno, California April 28, 1942-October 13, 1942 Tulare, California April 20, 1942-September 4, 1942 Turlock, Byron, California April 30, 1942-August 12, 1942 (Oppenheim, 23) |
Relocation Camps:
Permanent Detention camps, often referred to as relocation centers, were located in remote areas away from the designated “military” areas. They were used from the spring of 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946. They were under the control of the War Relocation Authority (WRA)
Justice Department Internment Camps:
U.S. Department of Justice internment camps were used to incarcerate 2,260 so-called “dangerous persons” of Japanese ancestry. “They were marked as different from other races and they were not treated on an equal basis. This happened because in one part of our country they were feared as competitors, and the rest of our country knew them so little and cared so little about them that they did not even think about the principle that we in this country believe in – that of equal right for all human beings. –Eleanor Roosevelt.
“We were filled with a terrible fear. The question was: What will happen to us now? That night an FBI agent with our town sheriff appeared at our door in the middle of the night to arrest my father. Without a word of protest, he got dressed and went with them into the dark night. We did not see him again for two and a half years.” –Testimony of Sally Kirita Tsuneishi
(Oppenheim, 24)
Permanent Detention camps, often referred to as relocation centers, were located in remote areas away from the designated “military” areas. They were used from the spring of 1942 until their closing in 1945 and 1946. They were under the control of the War Relocation Authority (WRA)
Justice Department Internment Camps:
U.S. Department of Justice internment camps were used to incarcerate 2,260 so-called “dangerous persons” of Japanese ancestry. “They were marked as different from other races and they were not treated on an equal basis. This happened because in one part of our country they were feared as competitors, and the rest of our country knew them so little and cared so little about them that they did not even think about the principle that we in this country believe in – that of equal right for all human beings. –Eleanor Roosevelt.
“We were filled with a terrible fear. The question was: What will happen to us now? That night an FBI agent with our town sheriff appeared at our door in the middle of the night to arrest my father. Without a word of protest, he got dressed and went with them into the dark night. We did not see him again for two and a half years.” –Testimony of Sally Kirita Tsuneishi
(Oppenheim, 24)