![]() Purcell filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus in the name of Mitsuye Endo. 34 in the US District Court for northern California. June 12, 1942: Fred Korematsu is charged with violating Exclusion Order No. June 10, 1942: The 100th Battalion, an all-Nisei infantry battalion, is activated in Hawaii. By May 20, the first Japanese Americans leave the camps for sugar beet fields in Oregon. May 13, 1942: The WRA and WCCA agree to permit recruitment of seasonal farm workers at assembly and war relocation centers. March 28, 1942: Minoru Yasui presents himself for arrest at a Portland, Oregon police station to test the curfew laws. All people of Japanese ancestry living within the military zones are now under travel restrictions, curfew, and contraband regulations. ![]() It requires that all persons of Japanese ancestry “evacuate” Bainbridge Island, Washington before March 30, 1942. March 23, 1942: The first Civilian Exclusion Order is issued by General DeWitt. March 21, 1942: Public Law 503 is signed into law, providin g penalties for persons who violate exclusion orders. The proclamation also states that certain persons or classes of persons might be excluded from these areas. 1 designating military areas in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. March 2, 1942: General DeWitt issues Public Proclamation No. Roosevelt creates the War Relocation Authority (WRA) on March 18 to maintain these civilian populations after forced removal is completed by the WCCA. March 1942: The US Army establishes the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) on March 11 to exclude civilians from the west coast. Army to designate areas from which “.any or all persons may be excluded.”įebruary 21, 1942: House Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration (Tolan Committee) begins hearings to investigate problems related to enemy aliens on the west coast.įebruary 26, 1942: A naval order requires all people of Japanese ancestry on Terminal Island, California to evacuate their homes and businesses in forty-eight hours. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 empowering the U.S. German, Italian, and Japanese aliens may not travel more than five miles from their homes in these areas.įebruary 19, 1942: President Franklin D. Army designates “restricted areas” in which enemy aliens must observe curfew and are limited in their travel. German, Italian, and Japanese aliens are removed from these areas.įebruary 4, 1942: The U.S. January 29, 1942: Attorney General Francis Biddle issues orders to establish “prohibited zones” from which “enemy aliens” are excluded. January 5, 1942: All Japanese American selective service registrants are reclassified as IV-C, “enemy aliens.” is declared a “theater of war.”ĭecember 29, 1941: All enemy aliens in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada are ordered to surrender all contraband, including short-wave radios, cameras, binoculars, and weapons. and not naturalized to be “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies.”ĭecember 8, 1941: The United States declares war on Japan.ĭecember 11, 1941: The Western Defense Command is established and Lt. 2525, declaring “all natives, citizens or subjects of the Empire of Japan” living in the U.S. Roosevelt signs residential Proclamation No. 91,858 Japanese aliens registered.ĭecember 7, 1941: Japan attacks the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Nationality Act of 1940 requires that resident aliens register annually at post offices and keep the government apprised of any address changes. He was the only Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II. Sadao Munemori was killed in April 1945 while his family was at Manzanar.
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