Japanese American Internment (Draft) Purpose Raise Awareness of NARA’S Role in Safeguarding Historic Materials, Photos, and Records

Project Name: Japanese American Internment (draft) Purpose Raise awareness of NARA’s role in safeguarding historic materials, photos, and records.

Message To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of FDR’s Executive Order 9066 that interned Japanese Americans during World War II, the National Archives makes widely available its extensive related holdings including photos, videos, and records that chronicle this chapter in American history.

Team Lead Kerri Lawrence & Miriam Kleiman

Team Hilary Parkinson, John Heyn, Brian Barth, Jessie Kratz

Agency Stakeholders FDR Library, Research

Non-NARA Stakeholders Public including Japanese Americans, JANM,

External Products Web Page https://update.archives.gov/news/item/japanese-american-internment

Press Release JANM Press release dated January 26, 2017 (Kleiman to add link)

FDR Library Press Release: Exhibit http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102288669016&ca=c4be34e2- 1baf-4810-9f42-069e1b66c9b5

New Story News story written for archives.gov/news (Lawrence to add link)

Video

Historic Videos Social media video of Dorothea Lange photographs (Heyn/Parkinson)

Other Videos/Photos http://digitalvaults.org/tags/j/japanese+relocation.html?page=1

Japanese-American internment video , from the FDR Library’s Pare Lorentz Center for

documentary film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkrqrjyIwk Democracy Starts Here - the National Archives “signature film” features Cherry Tsutsumida, Civil Rights Activist and Director of the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation, who was incarcerated as a child with her family and later fought for justice for Japanese Americans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n3ZZ-UpiR4

U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/spring/mail-censorship-in- world-war-two-1.html

1944 Newsreel: A Challenge to Democracy War Relocation Authority film defending the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. NARA ID: 39226 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8F8zP0T19k

Articles

Prologue The Past Recaptured? The Photographic Record of the Internment of Japanese- Americans www.archives.gov/files/research/japanese-americans/prologue-1980.pdf How an eagle feels when his wings are clipped and caged: Relocation Center Newspapers Describe Japanese American Internment in World War II www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/winter/wra.html Return to Sender: U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/spring/mail-censorship-in-world-war-two- 1.html

A "New" FDR Emerges: Historians, Teachers, Authors Take a Fresh, Sometimes Critical, Look at Roosevelt www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/winter/fdr-emerges.html

Blogs Pieces of History: The orphan called Tokyo Rose https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/10/06/the-orphan-called-tokyo-rose/

The draft dodgers of 1944 https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/09/16/the-draft-dodgers-of-1944/

On display: Executive Order 9066 and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2013/07/17/on-display-executive-order-9066-and- the-civil-liberties-act-of-1988/

The Text Message: A Slap’s a Slap: General John L. DeWitt and Four Little Words https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2013/11/22/a-slaps-a-slap-general-john-l-

dewitt-and-four-little-words/

Halloween at the Tule Lake Relocation Center https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2012/10/31/halloween-at-the-tule-lake- relocation-center/

Education

Online Resources https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation https://education.blogs.archives.gov/2016/06/24/due-process-japanese-relocation/ https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation/activities.html https://trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/lessons/full.php?lessonID=486

FDR Library - Japanese-American Internment: World War II “Teachable Moment” http://www.fdrlibraryvirtualtour.org/page07-15.asp

'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy': The First Typed Draft of Franklin D. Roosevelt's War Address https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/day-of-infamy

Online Engagement Citizen Archivist Dashboard - Transcribe this record! Opportunity An Act of August 10, 1988, Public Law 100-383, 102 STAT 903, to Implement Recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, 8/10/1988. www.transcribe.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/transcribe/featured.html

Social Media

Twitter @USNatArchives will post social media video and applicable links

Facebook US National Archives will post video and applicable links

Instagram We’ll post # materials from various NARA platforms

Exhibits

DC Area Records of Rights Exhibit: Japanese American Internment, 1942 http://recordsofrights.org/events/133/japanese-american-internment

Presidential FDR Library Online Exhibit/Virtual Tour Libraries http://www.fdrlibraryvirtualtour.org/page07-15.asp

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102288669016&ca=c4be34e2-1baf- 4810-9f42-069e1b66c9b5

Online Featured Document: Japan’s Instrument of Surrender Exhibits https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/japanese-surrender-document

Outreach Loan of Executive Order 9066 to the Japanese American National Museum Initiative Loan of Executive Order 9066 to the Smithsonian American History Museum

Events

DC Area Featured Activity in ReSource Room: Japanese Internment Boeing Learning Center, National Archives, Washington, DC Wednesday, February 1, 2017 through February 28, 2017 - 10:00am to 4:00pm Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1941, and put into motion the process of Japanese Internment. Stop by the Boeing Learning Center this month to engage in hands-on activities and immerse yourself in a world of spies and suppressed evidence to solve the mystery of how the National Archives helped right the wrongs of Japanese Internment.

Presidential Libraries IMAGES OF INTERNMENT: THE INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II : February 19, 2017 on Location: vanden Heuvel Gallery https://fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions

Other Sites Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California: Exhibition “Instruction to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066” featuring the original Executive Order authorizing WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, on loan from National Archives; Exhibit open from February 18 through August 13, 2017. http://www.janm.org/exhibits/instructions-to-all/ Internal Products

NARA Notices

Declarations Story featuring records from our Catalog, events, and the webpage

ICN

Digital Signs Signs pointing to Declarations story and webpage

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