Selected Documents on Japanese American Incarceration, 1935-2005 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Collection Overview

Title: Selected Documents on Japanese American Incarceration, 1935-2005

Primary Creator: Archivists of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum

Extent: 4.5 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: This "artificial" collection is arranged in four series, each reflecting the original archival collection from which the documents draw: FDR Papers as President - Official File (OF); FDR Papers as President - President's Personal File (PPF); FDR Papers as President - President's Secretary's File (PSF); and Materials from Other Collections. The Box/Folder Listing uses folder titles from the source collections verbatim, but researchers should be aware that in most cases only specific component items from each folder were selected for inclusion.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists of selected documents indentified from the holdings of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library pertaining to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Collection Historical Note

This "artifical" collection was assembled in response to public interest in the issue of Japanese American incarceration [also referred to as internment] during World War II. While the FDR Library staff has endeavored to make this research collection as comprehensive as possible, this collection does not represent the entirety of materials in the Library documenting the forcible relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans following the issuance of Executive Order 9066.

Researchers should approach this finding aid and documents in this collection it represents as a guide, not as a a complete inventory of all relevant materials. Papers which may contain a greater amount of records pertaining to Japanese American internment include but are not limited to the President's Personal Files (PPF), the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, and the Morgenthau Diaries. The diaries of Harold Ickes and Henry L. Stimson, while not at the Library, have been microfilmed, and the Library owns copies of the microfilm.

The work of Library intern Jenny Swadosh in researching, selecting, and arranging the documents, and in preparing the ffinding aid, is gratefully acknowledged.

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: This collection is available for use by the general public.

Use Restrictions: This material is subject to copyright restrictions under Title 17 of the U.S. Code.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President, Official File (OF)],
[Series 2: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President, President's Personal File (PPF)],
[Series 3: Franklin D. Roosevelt, papers as President, President's Secretary's File (PSF)],
[Series 4: Materials from Other Collections],
[All]

Series 1: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Papers as President, Official File (OF)

Box 1: correspondence, memoranda, and reports from the following files: OF 6: Department of the Interior (1 folder); OF 10, OF10b: Deparment of Justice, including abstracts and FBI reports (18 folders); OF18: Deaprtment of the Navy (1 folder); OF 25: War Department (3 folders); OF69: Boy Scouts of America (1 folder); OF 77, OF 77a: Alien Property Custodian (2 folders); OF 79: Bureau of the Budget (5 folders); OF 93: Colored Matters (Negroes) (1 folder); OF107: Education (1 folder); OF 133: Immigration (3 folders); OF 136: Radio (1 folder); OF 161: Proclamations and Executive Orders (2 folders); OF 197: Japan (1 folder); OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous (8 folders).

Box 2: OF 227a: XYZ [re. agricultural labor] (2 folder); OF 241: Sugar; OF 335: Support of Defense Program - K; OF 400: Alaska, Hawaii (5 folders); OF 669: Institute of Pacific Relations (1 folder); OF 1413: Selective Service Legislation (4 folders); OF 4245-G: Office of Production Management Committee on Fair Employment Practices (3 folders); OF 4249: Home Defense (1 folder); OF4675: World War II Support J [re. Japanese American support for U.S.] (1 folder); OF 4805: Military Areas (1 folder); OF 4849: War Relocation Authority (1 folder).

Box 3: OF 4849, 4849a, 4849b: War Relocation Authority (8 folders);OF 5030: Nault, Eugene and Constance, Leonard (1 folder); OF 5262: Kraus, Julia and Andriano, Sylvester (1 folder).

Box 1

OF 6: Department of the Interior, 1943
OF 10: Justice Department, 1942
OF 10: Justice Department, Jan.-Apr. 1942 Abstracts
OF 10: Justice Department, May-Jun. 1942 Abstracts
OF 10: Justice Department, Aug.-Dec. 1942 Abstracts
OF 10: Justice Department, 1943
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1940 (1)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1940 (2)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1941 (1)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1941 (2)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1941 (3)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1941-1942
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1942 (1)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1942 (2)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1942 (3)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1942 (4)
Of 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1942 (5)
OF 10: Justice Department, FBI Reports, 1942 (6)
OF 18: Department of the Navy, Mar.-Apr. 1942
OF 25: War Department, Jul.-Dec. 1942
OF 25: War Department Miscellaneous, May-Aug 1943
Cross Reference, Sept.-Oct. 1942
OF 25: War Dept. 1943
OF 69: Boy Scouts of America, 1943
OF 77a: Alien Property Custodian, 1939-1945
OF 77a: Alien Property Custodian Endorsements
OF 79: Bureau of the Budget Jul-Dec 1941
OF 79: Bureau of the Budget, Jan-Jun 1942
OF 79: Bureau of the Budget Jun-Dec 1942
OF 79: Bureau of the Budget Jan-Jun 1943
OF 79: Bureau of the Budget, 1944-1945
OF 93: Colored Matters, Jan-Apr 1943
OF 107: Education, January-April 1943
OF 133: Immigration, 1936-1941
OF 133: Immigration, 1942
OF 133: Immigration 1943-1945
OF 136: Radio, Jun-Dec. 1941
OF 161: Proclamations and Executive Orders 1941-1945
OF 161: Proclamations and Executive Orders: Cross Refs Jan-Jul 1942
OF 197: Japan 1943-1945
OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous 1935-1937
OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous 1938-1939
OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous, 1940
OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous, 1941
OF 197: Japan, 1941-1942
OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous, 1942
OF 197a: Japan, 1943
OF 197a: Japan Miscellaneous, 1944-1945

Box 2

OF 227a: Farm Matters, 1942
OF 227a: Farm Matters, Jan-Mar 1943
OF 241: Sugar 1942
OF 335: Support of Defense Program - K, 1940-1943
OF 400: Appointements - Alaska, 1941
OF 400: Appointments - Hawaii, 1939-1940
OF 400: Appointments - Hawaii, 1941
OF 400: Appointments - Hawaii, 1942
OF 400: Appointments - Hawaii Pearl Harbor Inquiry, 1941-1942
Of 669: Institute of Pacific Relations
OF 1413: Selective Service Legislation, Nov-Dec 1942
OF 1413: Selective Service Legislation, Jan 1943
OF 1413: Selective Service Legislation, Feb. 1-15, 1943
OF 1413: Selective Service Legislation, Feb. 16-28, 1943
OF 4245-G: Office of Production Management Committee on Fair Employment Practices, Tule Lake
OF 4245-G: Office of Production Management Committee on Fair Employment Practices, War Relocation Authority (1)
OF 4245-G: Office of Production Management Committee on Fair Employment Practices, War Relocation Authority (2)
OF 4249: Home Defense, 1940-1941
OF 4675: World War II - Support J
OF 4805: Military Areas 1942-1943
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority, 1942

Box 3

OF 4849: War Relocation Authority, 1943
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority, 1944-1945 (1)
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority, 1944-1945 (2)
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority, Miscellaneous (1)
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority, Miscellaneous (2)
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority
OF 4849b: War Relocation Authority, Executive Order 9102
OF 4849: War Relocation Authority
OF 5030: Nault, Eugene, Constance, Leonard, 1942
OF 5262: Kraus, Julia and Andriano, Sylvester, 1943