1. Fred Korematsu and Gordon Hirabayashi were two men who refused to report to the evacuation

The Jim Crow Era and today are different because there was horrible discrimination between blacks and whites back then and there is racial equality now. “African Americans...experienced discrimination” during the Jim Crow Era and now we all have equal rights (“Racism”). Back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, whites wanted to keep

Ten weeks after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) singed an Executive Order of 9066 that authorized the removal of any people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable”(FDR). The west coast was home of majority of Japanese Americans was considered as military areas. More than 100,000 Japanese Americans was sent and were relocated to the internment camps that were built by the United States. Of the Japanese that were interned, 62 percent were Nisei (American born, second generation) or Sansei (third-generation Japanese) the rest of them were Issai Japanese immigrants. Americans of

In 1941, the Japanese surprise attacked Pearl Harbor and consequently, the United Stated entered World War II. Thus, in 1942, FDR issued Executive Order No. 9066 which allowed the Secretary of War to designate military areas. The executive order led to Public Law 503 in which Congress made it a criminal offense to violate military orders under Executive Order No. 9066, therefore, allowing the military to begin excluding anyone of Japanese ancestry in the military areas and forcing them to report to internment camps. Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American citizen, willingly refused to evacuate under Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 and was arrested and convicted. Korematsu appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court where Korematsu V United States was heard with Korematsu as the petitioner and the United States as the respondent.

Following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, racial tensions increased in the United States, especially on the West Coast (Divine 898). The anti-Japanese sentiment led to President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which gave military officials the power to limit the civil rights of Japanese Americans (Danzer 802). The order also authorized the forced relocation of all Japanese Americans to concentration camps (Divine 898). These camps were located in desolate deserts and flatlands in the interior of the United States (Sato 67). Two thirds of the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forced to relocate were “Nisei”, or native born American citizens (Divine 898).

The beginning of everything that the Japanese citizens of our nation had to endure,was the bombing of an American Naval Base. It was an early sunday morning on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked a naval base in Hawaii known as Pearl Harbor (DeWitt 1). This act of war cause 2,400 American people aboard a naval ship die. After the attack, President Roosevelt and congress declared war on Japan, with America declaring war on Japan , Japanese-Americans suffered immensely. In fear that the Japanese may attack the weakened west coast, President Roosevelt signed an order, known as Executive Order No. 9066, which let the military remove Japanese-Americans or anyone of the Japanese decent ,and have them relocated into internment camps. Interment

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II (Prange et al., 1981: p.174). On February 19, 1942, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War and Military Commanders to prescribe areas of land as excludable military zones (Roosevelt, 1942). Effectively, this order sanctioned the identification, deportation, and internment of innocent Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps across the western half of the United States. During the spring and summer of 1942, it is estimated that almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated from their homes along the West Coast and in Hawaii and

As a Japanese-American immigrant, Sugimoto also had to face the fierce treatment of the government during the World War II. Sugimoto and his family were confined to the temporary internment camp after the Pearl Harbor bombings. Japanese Americans were treated as threat to the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Japanese Americans were forced to sell their properties or leave whatever they had and were sent to live in internment camps. The internment camps were surrounded by military forces and barbed wires. Life in the camps was difficult. Around 60 people lived in the same house in the camp and they weren’t even allowed to work. Japanese Americans were treated like prisoners in their own land. Following Executive Order 9066, which was issued on February 19, 1942, the Sugimoto family--consisting Sugimoto, his wife and his daughter Madeleine--was rounded up in the spring by the army and confined in Pinedale Assembly Center. They were then sent to the Jerome camp in Arkansas, moving to the Rohwer camp in June 1944 when the Jerome camp was closed. The government 's treatment shocked Sugimoto. Believing it was his mission as an

When the Executive Order 9066 was passed, the Japanese Americans were given about six days to pack their things, make necessary arrangements and say their goodbyes. These people had jobs. Some were store owners, some were strawberry farmers, but nonetheless, they had to either sell or make other arrangements. They were instructed they could only take with them what they could carry. To me, I felt this was both necessary but also very sad as well. The United States was in shock over the attack on Pearl Harbor. People were outraged, but they were also scared. To think we had Japanese Americans living in this country, the fear was what if they were planning another attack from within? That was the scary idea, so the order 9066 was signed on February

The relocation of Japanese Americans was an event that occurred within the United States during World War II. On February 19th, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which forced all Japanese Americans living in the West Coast to be evacuated from the area and relocated to internment camps all across the United States, where they would be imprisoned. Approximately 120,000 people were sent to the camps and the event lasted through the years 1942 and 1945. The main cause of the relocation and internment of these people was because of fear made among Japanese people after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Citizens of the United States had been worrying about the possibility of Japanese residents of the country aiding Japan, and/or secretly trying to destroy American companies.

At the time of the attacks on pearl harbor, the president of the united states was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He passed the executive order 9066 in February of 1942. This called for the internment of Japanese-american's in Hawaii and the west coast. Moving over 110,000 of them to 10 internment camps in Northern California. President Roosevelt was unjustified by sending Japanese-american's to the camps just based on their race.

Furthermore, the destruction at Pearl Harbor has been associated with the commencement of the internment camps. The Japanese bombed a U.S. naval base, killing American military personnel. A few months after the disaster in Hawaii, the President signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed anyone of Japanese descent to be placed in an internment camp. However, the Japanese-American citizens were innocent, but

On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The bombing killed thousands of Americans. This was ultimately the action that brought the United States into World War II. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This “granted the U.S. Military the power to ban tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to domestic security” (Konkoly par. 1). The Japanese Americans were relocated to Internment Camps for the duration of the war. Fred Korematsu, in defiance of the order, refused to leave his home in San Leandro, California. He was arrested and convicted of violating Exclusion Order Number 34.

More than 66% of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in the spring of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan but still all were wrongly accused. Soon after the horrific bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast and leave their beloved homes. Although many Japanese American internees accepted their fates, there were still many who were strongly against incarceration and spoke their minds.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, a large Japanese aircraft carrier strike force launched a surprise military attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Five battleships and nine smaller warships were sunk and three other battleships were heavily damaged. In addition, 188 planes were destroyed and 2403 people were killed. In 1942, two months after the Japanese attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War Henry Stimson to move civilians as necessary into “relocation camps”. Military officials on the West Coast, acting under the directive moved over 110,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. This controversial event was known as the Japanese-American Internment.

The evacuation of Japanese-American’s in the West Coast is seen as one of the darkest times in American history. The rising tension between the United States and Japan, leading up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor, made the decision for the evacuation much easier. Military and political motives both played a vital role in the action to separate Japanese-Americans from the rest of society during the 1940s. The purpose plays a very large role in the constitutionality of each case, as one has a stronger case than the other. Regardless if the evacuation was constitutional or not, the morality of it is still the same.