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	Japanese-American National Museum - http://www.janm.org Resources about the WW II Japanese-American relocation and internment experience.
	Conscience and the Constitution - http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/ The story of the young Japanese Americans who refused to be drafted from an American concentration camp in World War II. Biographies, timeline, documents, letters, PBS film review.
	A More Perfect Union - Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution - http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html Focuses on the experience of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps in World War II.
	Free to Die for Their Country - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/548228.html The drafting of internees out of camps and into the Army; some resisted and went to prison. Excerpt from forthcoming book.
	Suffering Under a Great Injustice - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/ The Library of Congress presents Ansel Adams's photographs of Japanese American internment at Manzanar.

	Tule Lake Internment Camp - http://www.tulelake.org/ Information and resources on this WWII Japanese-American internment camp, located in Tule Lake, California.
	Children of the Camps - PBS - http://www.children-of-the-camps.org Companion website to a PBS documentary of the experiences of Japanese American children interned behind barbed wire during World War II.
	Dorothea Lange's Photographs of the Japanese-American Evacuation - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html Collection of contemporary photographs of the Japanese-Americans in the process of being interned.
	Internment and Evacuation of San Francisco Japanese - 1942 - http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html Newspaper coverage of the day, PowerPoint presentations, Dorothea Lange's documentary photos, links.
	Camp Harmony (Puyallup Assembly Center) - http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/ In-depth online exhibit of the history (from notification to the move to Minidoka) and daily camp life of Japanese-Americans in this WW II relocation assembly camp. Photos, eyewitness accounts, issues of camp newspaper, WRA regulations, staff memos, correspondence.

	War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement - http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf596nb4h0 Collection taken by photographers working for the U.S. Government.
	War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 - http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/ Images depict the daily life of Japanese-American interns.
	The Granada Relocation Center Site - http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada.htm Links, quotations, and photographs of life in the Japanese-American relocation camp near Amache, Colorado. From the Colorado State Archives.
	Smithsonian: A More Perfect Union - http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/internment_main.html Synopsis of Japanese-American Internment exhibition that "celebrates the Constitution but goes on to reveal how in a time of grave national crisis, racial fear and prejudice swept away the freedoms it guarantees."
	Conscience and the Constitution - http://www.resisters.com/ Video documentary on the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, the largest organized resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Primary documents, study guide, news updates.

	Relocation of Japanese-Americans - http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/wrapam.html 1943 War Relocation Authority pamphlet covering background, program, evacuees, students, evacuee property. Image of original cover. Photos.
	Further and Further Away - http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/93spring/further.htm Covers the relocation of San Diego's Nisei (Japanese-American) Community, 1942.
	WCCA Operations Manual, Part XXXV - http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/wcca.html List of rules in force at assembly centers used in the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast in WW II on their way to internment at relocation camps.
	Japanese Americans - Evacuation and Relocation, 1942-1945 - http://www.laspositascollege.edu/library/bibjapam.php Strategies, sources, materials, and resources.
	Life in Camp Harmony - http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/nd.html A first-hand account of a little girl's impressions at being trapped behind a fence guarded by machine guns during the WW II evacuation of Japanese-Americans. Excerpt from book "Nisei Daughter" by Monica Itoi Stone.

	The Treatment of Japanese Americans During World War II - http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.01.x.html The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute presents an examination of Supreme Court cases relevant to the West Coast relocation program with historical background and social environment. Notes, unit test, and list of materials for classroom use.
	Masumi Hayashi Photography - http://www.masumihayashi.com/html/htmt.html Cleveland-based artist/photographer presents art and research about the WW II internment of Japanese-Americans.
	Tule Lake Japanese Internment Camp - http://tulelakescrapbook.com/Home_Page.html Scrapbook kept by a woman who taught in the camp. Includes photos and biography.
	Japanese-American Orphans Evicted From Orphanages - http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/24/interned.orphans/ Orphanages packed orphans of Japanese ancestry off to government relocation camps during WW II. CNN article.
	Executive Order 9066 - http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/tocs/ex9066.htm Information on an illustrated book about the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans.

	Wendi's Grandfather - An Internment Experience - http://users.owt.com/rpeto/past/wendigrand/wendi_gran.html A high school student's report on her grandfather's experience as a Japanese-American intern in a WW II relocation camp.
	Livingston Dodgers in Camp - http://www.thediamondangle.com/archive/nov02/nisei.html Four rare photographs of a Japanese-American baseball team in the Amache, Colorado relocation camp.

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