Evacuation Notice
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Web Resources
Links to legal documents authorizing the internment of persons of Japanese ancestry; a Supreme Court case challenging it; and a U.S. government apology.
- Executive Order 9066 (Our Documents)Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
- Korematsu v. United States (Cornell University Law School)Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion in the case of Korematsu v. United States, a legal challenge to the internment policy. See Also: History Matters.
- Civil Liberties Act of 1988The Act was passed by Congress to provide a Presidential apology and symbolic payment of $20,000 to the internees, evacuees, and persons of Japanese ancestry who lost liberty or property because of discriminatory action by the Federal government during World War II.
- Presidential Letter of ApologyA copy of President Bill Clinton's apology letter sent following the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
- Japanese Americans & The U.S. ConstitutionThis site provides images, music, texts and first-person accounts of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps during World War II.