POS 110 – Web-Search Assignment #4

Due Date: If you choose to do this assignment, it will be due no later than Mon., Oct. 7th

WEB SITE: Go to http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html
            (NOTE: On my computer this site loaded much faster on Explorer than on Netscape).

BACKGROUND: The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution stipulates that no citizen shall be denied "the privileges or immunities or immunities of citizens of the United States" nor shall they be denied "equal protection of the laws". This site is a very comprehensive list of links to materials and pages relating to the internship of Japanese-Americans in WW II. Feel free to browse the site; there are many personal memoirs and picture galleries that are quite interesting. When you are ready, proceed to the following questions.

Question #1 – What were Executive Orders 9066 and 9102? The answer can be obtained from many of the links here. Why were they issued and who was affected? (10 pts)











Question #2 – CLICK on WRA Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946. How many internment camps were located in Arizona? Where were they?(10 points)




Question #3 – There are numerous personal memoirs by or about individual internees at this site. Read at least one of them. I recommend An Internment Experience ( an account by a Pasco High School student of events told to her by her grandfather that, despite the awkward writing, is particularly affecting); or That Damned Fence (a poem written by an internee of the Poston, AZ camp–this can be found at the WRA site noted above); or Poston Arizona Gallery (click on each of the postcards and you can follow a narrative about the Poston camp). If your family were placed in such a situation, how might your feelings toward the U.S. be shaped?(10 points)







Question #4 – Now go to a second site — http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html Scroll down to the Party Name Search box. Enter korematsu and then CLICK Search. CLICK on the 1944 version of the case. These are the Supreme Court's opinions when it decided Fred Korematsu's constitutional challenge to Executive Order 9066. Scroll down to the dissenting opinions (the views of the LOSING side) of Justice Murphy and Justice Jackson. Both are considered classic defenses of the civil rights of Americans. Choose ONE of these opinions and

A) summarize its major arguments(10 points)











AND B) explain why you agree or disagree with his analysis (10 points)