Years of infamy : the untold story of America's concentration camps / by Michi Weglyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weglyn, Michi, 1926-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.

Japanese Americans.

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Morrow, 1976.

Summary:

An account of the evacuation and internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Contents:

The secret Munson report

Hostages

"So the army could handle the Japs"

Outcasts

Reentry into America

"Dear Mr. President"

Storm warnings

Loyalty

disloyalty

Tule Lake

Appendices. Knox demand for wholesale internment of Hawaiian Japanese

Addendum, March 11, 1942, to J.C.S. 11, February 12, 1942, adopted by the Joint U.S. Chiefs of Staff on March 9, 1942

Distribution of Japanese relief goods received on exchange ship M.S. Gripsholm on December 1, 1943

Surveillance behind barbed wire

Censorship of relocation center publications

Presidential proclamation no. 2655

Selected documents relating to hostage-reserve project

Memorandum to Cordell Hull: postwar deportation of Japanese Americans discussed in relation to possible measures to be pursued by Canada

Army warning to Governor Earl Warren that returnees must be allowed safe return

Jay Franklin's covering memorandum; naval communication service memorandum

Leave clearance interview questions

Convinced that pending high court cases would be lost, Biddle refuses to prosecute on the basis of executive order 9066

The stockade

To liberate or not to liberate

Renunciation

Native American aliens

Epilogue.

Notes:

Filmography: pages 336-337.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-336) and index.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1977

ISBN:

0688029965

9780688029968

0688079962

9780688079963

OCLC:

1863436