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1942 WW II JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERMENT California U.S. Military Broadside Poster

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1942 WW II JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERMENT California U.S. Military Broadside Poster
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May 3, 1942-Dated WW II Japanese Ancestry-American “Internment” Official Broadside Poster San Francisco, Calif.
May 3, 1942-Dated, World War II, (Japanese Internment) Original JAPANESE-AMERICAN INTERMENT Broadside Poster. Historic Printed Broadside Poster, Regarding the Forced Internment of Japanese Residents of California, Choice Crisp Near Mint.
Broadside Poster Headed: “Instructions To All Persons Of Japanese Ancestry,” measuring 22” x 14”. This is an authentic original 1942 Issued Bold Black Printed Broadside Poster on heavy off-white cardstock, issued by the “Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration from the Presidio of San Francisco, California.” It is boldly headed:

“Instructions To All Persons Of Japanese Ancestry Living in the Following Area: All that portion of the City of Seattle, State of Washington, within the boundry beginning at the point of intersection of Twelfth Avenue and Yesler Way; thence easterly along Yesler Way to Twenty-third Avenue; thence southerly along Twenty-third Avenue to Dearborn Street; thence westerly along Dearborn Street to Twelfth Avenue; thence northerly along Twelfth Avenue to the point of begining.”

This infamous American Military Poster provides many additional very specific military orders for the evacuation of: “... all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien,” pursuant to Civilian Exclusion Order #37, signed in print by J. L. DeWitt, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army Commanding. This historic, rare and highly important Broadside is a fully authentic example of this very infamous and sad act of social injustice in modern American history.
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the secretary of war to designate military zones within the U.S. from which "any or all persons may be excluded." The order was not targeted at any specific group, but it became the basis for the mass relocation and internment of some 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, including both citizens and non-citizens of the United States.

In March 1942, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, commander of the U.S. Army Western Defense Command established a massive exclusion zone along the west coast and demanded that all persons of Japanese ancestry report to civilian assembly centers.

On short notice, thousands were forced to close businesses, abandon farms and homes, and move into remote internment camps, also called relocation centers. Some of the detainees were repatriated to Japan, and others moved eastward to other parts of the U.S. outside of the exclusion zones. A number even enlisted with the U.S. Army. But most simply endured their internment in frustrated resignation.

In January 1944, a Supreme Court ruling halted the detention of U.S. citizens without cause, and the exclusion order was rescinded, and the Japanese Americans began to leave the camps, most returning home to rebuild their former lives. The last camp closed in 1946, and by the end of the 20th century the U.S. government had paid $1.6 billion in reparations to detainees and their descendants.