Document 1: "To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry"
Courtesy of The National Parks Service, US Gov.
Many of the resources on this page are borrowed with permission from Cornell University libraries
1944 government-produced film defending the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The film focused heavily on the necessity of resettling inmates from the camps to the Midwest and East Coast.
Links to legal documents authorizing the internment of persons of Japanese ancestry; a Supreme Court case challenging it; and a U.S. government apology.