This document provides background information on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It discusses the nativist sentiment against Asian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During World War II, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in internment camps following Executive Order 9066. The document includes images showing Japanese Americans registering for internment, waiting to board trains to internment camps, and life in the camps, highlighting the injustice and hardship they faced.

1. Citizenship, Civil Rights &
Japanese Internment

2. Tough Terms
• Alien
• Nativism
• Xenophobia
• Issei
• Nisei
Nisei soldier World War II era

3. Historical Background
• Aliens or Immigrants
• Asian Immigration &
American Nativism
(1870s-1920s)
• Legacies of Anti-Asian
Sentiment
Harper’s Weekly
illustration from 1870s
was critical of anti-
Chinese sentiment.

4. WWII & Japanese Internment
• Nativism by the Bombs’ Early Light
• FDR & Executive Order 9066
• Camp Life

5. Illustration and Writing Project
• Individual Creative Writing
• Small Group Discussion
• Large Group Discussion of Illustrations

6. Image 1
Wanto Grocery, owned by an Asian American, UC Berkeley
graduate. (California, December 1941)

7. Image 2
Reading evacuation orders on a bulletin board in Los Angeles.
These families will have as little as one week to report to the
relocation center. (1942) Library of Congress.

8. Image 3
Dorothea Lange, “One Nation Indivisible.” Pledge of
Allegiance at Rafael Weill Elementary School a few weeks
prior to evacuation. (San Francisco, 1942)

9. Image 4
Japanese Americans register for internment at the Santa Anita
reception center in Los Angeles. (1942) Library of Congress

10. Image 5
Evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old train station in
Los Angeles, CA. The train will take them to Owens Valley.
(April 1942) Library of Congress

11. Image 6
Japanese Americans waiting to board the train that will take them to
the internment camp in Owens Valley. (April 1942)

12. Image 7
“All Packed Up and Ready to Go” Editorial Cartoon, San
Francisco News (March 6, 1942)

13. Image 8
Family arriving in internment camp barracks, from the Tacoma
New Tribune, University of Washington. (no date)

14. Image 9
An American Soldier on guard duty at an internment camp holds a
Japanese American child. Tacoma News Tribune, University of
Washington.

15. Image 10
Internment camp mess hall. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, University of
Washington.

16. Image 11
Byron, Takashi Tsuzuki, Forced Removal, Act II, 1944. Japanese
American National Museum Collection.

17. Image 12
G.S. Hante, a barber in Kent, Washington, displays his sentiments
about internment. (March 1944)

18. The Rest of the Story
• Confiscation and Property Loss
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Apology & Reparations
George H. W. Bush’s apology to
Japanese Americans held in the
internment camps. (1988)