The Evacuation of Japanese-Americans from Washington State During World War II: A Study in Race Discrimination

In 1964 Congress passed a major civil rights bill designed to give equal rights to all Americans regardless of race, but there was a time when that same government under pressures of war, denied civil rights to citizens as well as non-citizens strictly because of race. Going back twenty-three years, one can study the racial discrimination practiced by the United States government towards another minority group--the Japanese-Americans. This paper will cover: (1) Why the Japanese-Americans were evacuated during World War II; (2) How they were evacuated; (3) The consequences of their evacuation. Because of the vast program of relocation of all the Japanese-Americans on the Pacific Coast, this study will be limited to the 14,565 Japanese-Americans of Washington State.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Education (MEd)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year

1965

Author dc:creator

• Ptolemy, Charles A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Walter L. Berg
• Floyd Rodine
• Donald G. Goetschius

• Education
• World War
• 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
• 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians
• Washington (State)
• Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/494

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1505