Japanese Internment Timeline-Jake Idstrom And Blade Miller

Pearl Habor attacked

Dec 7, 1941

December 7, 1941
The attack on Pearl Harbor. Local authorities and the F.B.I. begin to round up the leadership of the Japanese American communities. In 2 days 1,291 Issei are in custody. These men are held under no formal charges and family members are kept from seeing them. en.wikipedia.org http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

timespan

Period: Dec 7, 1941 to Aug 10, 1988

Proclamation 1

Mar 2, 1942

March 2, 1942
Gen. John L. DeWitt issues Public Proclamation Number 1 which creates Military Areas Numbers 1 and 2. Military Area Number 1 is in the western part of California, Oregon and Washington, and part of Arizona and Military Area Number 2 is in the rest of these states. The proclamation also hints that people might be excluded from Military Area Number 1. Also the camps were created because we thought that the japanese were bad people. Meals were made for 48 cents a day per person.

Exclusion orders

Mar 24, 1942

March 24, 1942
The first Civilian Exclusion Order issued by the Army is issued for the Bainbridge Island area near Seattle. By the end of October, 108 exclusion orders would be issued, and all Japanese Americans in Military Area Number 1 and the California portion of Number 2 would be incarcerated. Conditions were nonlivable, overcrowded. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

1943 Quote

Mar 1, 1943

We saw all these people behind the fence, looking out, hanging onto the wire, and looking out because they were anxious to know who was coming in. But I will never forget the shocking feeling that human beings were behind this fence like animals [crying]. And we were going to also lose our freedom and walk inside of that gate and find ourselves…cooped up there…when the gates were shut, we knew that we had lost something that was very precious; that we were no longer free." Mary Tsukamoto

Tule Lake closes

Mar 20, 1946

March 20, 1946
Tule Lake closes, culminating "an incredible mass evacuation in reverse." In the month before the closing, about 5,000 internees had to be moved, many of them were elderly, impoverished, or mentally ill and with no place to go. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

People released

Jun 30, 1947

June 30, 1947
U.S. District Judge Louis E. Goodman orders that the petitioners in Wayne Collins' suit of December 13, 1945 be released; native-born American citizens could not be made into enemy aliens and could not be imprisoned or sent to Japan. 302 people are finally released from Crystal City, Texas and Seabrook Farms, New Jersey on September 6, 1947. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

Evacuation claims act

Jul 2, 1948

July 2, 1948
President Truman signs the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act, which means that $28 million was to be paid out through provision of the act, it would be ineffective even on the limited scope in which it operated.

Resolutions

Jul 10, 1970

July 10, 1970
Resolutions are announced by the Japanese American Citizen League's, calling for reparations for the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. which is meaning that those incarcerated live tax-free. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

japanese-americans human rights

Nov 28, 1979

November 28, 1979
Representative Mike Lowry introduces the World War II Japanese-American Human Rights Violations Act (H.R. 5977) into Congress. This NCJAR-sponsored bill is largely based on research done by ex-members of the Seattle JACL. It proposes direct payments of $15,000 per victim plus $15 per day interned. Given the choice between this bill and the JACL-supported study commission bill introduced two months earlier, Congress opted for the letter. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history

public hearing

Jul 14, 1981

July 14, 1981
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians holds a public hearing in Washington, D.C. as part of its investigation into the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Hearings would be held in other cities throughout the rest of 1981. http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html

repament

Aug 10, 1988

August 10, 1988
H.R. 442 is signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. It provides for individual payments of $20,000 to each surviving internee and a $1.25 billion education fund among other provisions.