Japanese-Americans in World War II
Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Pacific Coast residents of Japanese descent to internment camps in the interior of the United States.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm087.html

Like Esther Bubley, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) documented the change on the homefront, especially among ethnic groups and workers uprooted by the war. Three months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans into armed camps in the West. Soon after, the War Relocation Authority hired Lange to photograph Japanese neighborhoods, processing centers, and camp facilities.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html

Densho Educational Website
Excellent print material on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, plus an archive of videotaped oral histories with Japanese Americans who experienced the internment.
http://www.densho.org/densho.asp

PBS website looking at the Japanese-Americans in World War II
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_civil_rights_japanese_american.htm
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_war_democracy_japanese_american.htm
http://www.pbs.org/mosthonorableson/59mission.html

Fillmore Timeline 1860 - 2001
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/learning/time.html

Lesson Plans Japanese American Internment
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/classroom/internment.html

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) [online]. Regents of the University of California, c2000.
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

In 1940, Japanese-American farmers grew 95% of the fresh snap beans and spring and summer celery, 67% of the fresh tomatoes and 44% of the onions in California.
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_civil_rights_japanese_american.htm

In January 1942, the Office of Naval Intelligence estimated only about 3,500 Japanese were a potential military threat and there was no need for a mass evacuation.
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_war_democracy_japanese_american.htm

Following Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, there was a conflict between the claims of national security and the civil liberties of Japanese Americans. U.S. intelligence warned of widespread West Coast spying activities backed by the Japanese government. It was of course irrelevant at the time that these warnings turned out to be based on rumors and were almost completely untrue. What mattered is that the rumors were widely believed.
http://www.pbs.org/mosthonorableson/59mission.html

Fillmore Timeline 1860 - 2001
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/learning/time.html

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) [online]. Regents of the University of California, c2000. Available from: http://jarda.cdlib.org/
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/jarda/

Rosie the Riveter WWII American Homefront Project [online]. Berkeley: Regional Oral History Office, University of California, 2006 [cited 22 December 2006]. Available from: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/rosie/