The Internment: Links to More Information
The WWII internment of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans is documented in a growing number of books and websites. We provide here a small selection of websites worth exploring. These sites are not associated with Willow Valley Press. The links are provided as a service to readers interested in learning more about the historical background and social impact of events encompassed in Kiyo Sato’s Dandelion Through the Crack.
- Executive Order No. 9066
- Issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, this document ordered the creation of internment camps and the relocation of Japanese-Americans and Japanese immigrants.
- Maps of Japanese-American Internment Camps
- Maps and diagrams of the Japanese-American internment camps in the United States.
- Library of Congress: Japanese-American Internment
- Selection of photographs, and links to many more, including photos of Manzanar by Ansel Adams.
- Library of Congress: Executive Order 9066: Evacuation and Segregation
- Resources for teachers. Also see related links at this site.
- Patriots Under Fire: Japanese-Americans in World War II
- By Kathryn Shenkle, Historian, Arlington National Cemetery.
- National Park Service: Confinement and Ethnicity
- An online book, An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites.
- Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese, 1942
- Large selection of San Francisco newspaper articles.
- Annotated Directory of Resources
- Includes links to many resources for further research, including photo archives.