Dbq Japanese Internment Analysis

Van Reynolds 1st

Japanese Internment DBQ Japanese internment was one of the darkest parts of are history as America. Conditions in some camps were horrible and the question of whether it was even constitutional are not is a whole other story. Even the reasons why Japanese were imprisoned was foolish and horrible. After the attack on Pearl Harbor discrimination against Japanese Americans was greatly increased. Many people were suspicious of Japanese American involvement “Fear, and suspicion grew of the sizeable Japanese American community in the U.S” (Japanese American Internment). These suspicions combined with the already present racism against Japanese fueled the idea of Japanese internment, greatly violating their civil rights “Based on those fears, combined with a long history of anti-Japanese immigrant sentiment, the U.S. government forced more than 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast into

However in the terms of The Korematsu Supreme Court Ruling it says this action was “constitutional” and as said by Chief Justice Hugo Black at the time he said “Korematsu was not excluded from the Military Area because of hostility to him or his race. He was excluded because we are at war with the Japanese Empire” however no one of Japanese descent was actually investigated for sabotage and even if they were how would you know that every Japanese American was involved? Even the