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Pearl Harbor Bombed
On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. CAmps were established because after WW2 they thought the Japanese-Americans were bad. -
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Japanese Internment Camps
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Internment Camps
On February 19, 1942, Japanese-Americans were interned because of an executive order from President Roosevelt. Conditions of the camps were overcrowded, and provided unsuitable living conditions. A report from 1943 states that Japanese Americans were housed in "tarpaper-covered barracks of simple frame construction without plumbing or cooking facilities of any kind." Food was rationed out as 45 cents per internee, served by internee peers in a 250-300 people mess-hall. -
Public Proclomation
General John DeWitt issues Public Proclomation No. 1. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html -
Civilian Order
The first Civilian Order was issued by the army for Banbridge Island near Seattle. 45 families were given 1 week to prepare. -
Tule Lake
Tule Lake closes in the month prior the closing 5000 mentally ill, impoverished, and elderly internees were moved with no place to go. -
Louis Goodman
US District Judge, Louis E. Goodman, orders that the petitioners in Wayne Collins suit be released. Native born American citizens could not be imprisoned. -
Japanese American Evactuation Claims Act
President Truman signs the Japanese American Claims Act. -
Resolution
The Japanese American Citizen Leauge's Northern California -Western Nevada District Council announces a resolution and calls for reparations for the World War 2 incarceration of the Japanese Americans. -
Japanese Americans Human Rights
The Japanese Amercians Human Rights Violations has been announced by representative Mike Lowry into Congress. -
CWRIC
The Commision on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians holds a public hearing in Washington D.C as part of its investigation of the Japanese American internment camps. -
CWRIC Formal Reccomendations
The CWRIC issues formal reccomendations to Congress for the Japanese Americans interened during WW2. That includes payments of $20,000 to each internee that survived and is still alive. Apologies were being sent out. -
H.R. 422
President Ronald Reagan signs H. R. 422 into law. It provides $20,000 to each of the surviving internees and a $1.25 billion education fund.
