Whitaker Library: World War II Resources: Find sources about Japanese Internment

Find primary sources about Japanese Internment

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Find diaries, letters, photographs, camp newsletters and other historical documents about the Japanese Relocation camps.
Densho: Digital Archives
Find primary sources about Japanese Americans dating from 1900-1980's.
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Find photographs that document life at Manzanar, one of the internment camps.
Japanese American Incarceration Images, 1941-1946
View photographs that show life in the Japanese relocation centers in California. This collection is part of the USC Digital Library.
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Read the Executive Order by FDR that authorized the relocation of Japanese Americans.
The Munson Report (1941)
Read the report created by Curtis B. Munson about the loyalty of Japanese Americans.
Proclamation 4417 (1976)
A proclamation from President Gerald Ford that the Executive Order 9066 was rescinded.
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution
Find artifacts and photographs of the Japanese Internment camps. This website is maintained by the Smithsonian.

Facts and Case Summary for Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Learn about the Supreme Cort case where Fred Korematsu challenged the constitutionality of Executive Order 9006.