Executive Order 9066; The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans

Conrat, Maisie; Conrat, Richard

San Francico: California Historical Society, 1972. Softcover. Black illustrated wraps with white lettering, 120 pp, richly illustrated in bw illustrations. VG- (small tear and wear to spine, interior clean and tight). Item #173234

With an introduction by Edison Uno and an epilogue by Tom C. Clark, photographs by Dorothea Lange and others. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, was the instrument that allowed military commanders to designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in the interior. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, who represented the Department of Justice in the "relocation," writes in the Epilogue to this book : "The truth is--as this deplorable experience proves--that constitutions and laws are not sufficient of themselves. Despite the unequivocal language of the Constitution of the United States that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, and despite the Fifth Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, both of these constitutional safeguards were denied by military action under Executive Order 9066."tographers.