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 4: Materials from Other Collections

Box 4

Francis Biddle - Cabinet Meetings, 1941
Francis Biddle - Cabinet meetings, Jan-Jun 1942
Francis Biddle - Cabinet Meetings, Jul-Dec 1942
Francis Biddle - Cabinet Meetings, Jan 1944-May 1945
Francis Biddle - Rowe, James H. Jr.
Francis Biddle - Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Francis Biddle - Council Meetings, 1942-1945
Francis Biddle - Saboteurs
Francis Biddle - Notebooks -Attorney General III
Francis Biddle - Scrapbooks
Cox Papers - Justice Department FIle: War Relocation Authority - Executive Order
Charles Fahy - Office of Solicitor General Papers, Japanese Relocation Cases I

Box 5

Charles Fahy - Office of Solcitor General Papers: Japanese Relocation Cases II (1)
Charles Fahy Papers - Office of the Solicitor General papers: Japanese Relocation Cases II (2)
Charles Fahy - Office of the Solicitor General Papers
Charles Fahy - Office of the Solicitor General Papers: Japanese Relocation Cases III (1)
Charles Fahy - Office of the Solicitor General Papers: Japanese Relocation Cases III (2)

Box 6

Charles Fahy - Office of Solicitor General Papers: Japanese Relocation Cases - WRA Handbook
Charles Fahy - Argument Files: Hirabayashi v. US (320 US 81)
Charles Fahy - Argument Files: Korematsu v. US (325 US 214)
Charles Fahy - Argument Files: Mitsui Endo v. Eisenhower (323 US 283)
Harry Hopkins - Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports: FBI Survey of Japanese Relocation Centers, Part I: Recommendations
Papers of Harry Hopkins - Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports: FBI Survey of Japanese Relocation Centers, Part II: Interviews (1)

Box 7

Harry Hopkins - Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports: FBI Survey of Japanses Relocation Centers, Part II Interviews (2)
Lash Papers - Speeches and Writings: "Dealers and Dreamers: Interviews to James Hand, Japanese Exclusion Order", 1942
Isador Lubin - Personal Correspondence, 1935-1971, War Relocation Authority
William H. McReynolds - Executive and Judiciary File - Office of Emergency Management, 1941-1944
William H. McReynolds - Executive and Judiciary File: War Relocation Authority
Henry Morgenthau Diaries
ER Papers - 30.2 Invitations Declined Di-Hy, 1943
ER Papers - 30.9 Invitations Miscellaneous F-Z, 1944
ER Papers - 50.9 Gifts: Miscellaneous, 1943-1944
ER Papers - 50.9 Gifts: Miscellanelous T-Z, 1943
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Biddle Francis, 1941
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Biddle, Francis, 1942
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: E, 1942
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Macleish, Archibald
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Myer, Dillon S., 1943
ER Papers - 70 Correspondnece with Government Departments: Pickett, Clarence E., 1942
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Sti-Sz, 1942
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Ap-Biddle, Francis, 1943
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Ro-Ry, 1942
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Governments Departments: Pickett, Clarence, 1943
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Stimson, Henry L.
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Ta, 1943
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Ce-Cl, 1944
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Mr-My, 1944
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Pickett, Clarence, 1944
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Wals-Way, 1944
ER Papers - 70 Correspondence with Government Departments: Hu-I, 1945
ER Papers 90 - Congrats and Greetings: Sa-Th, 1942
ER Papers 90 - Congratulations and Greetings: Dh-Gl, 1943
ER Papers 90 - Contratulations and Greetings: I-Je, 1944
ER Papers 90 - Contratulations and Greetings: A-M, 1942
ER Papers 95 - "My Day" Comments A-M, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Davis, Norman, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Ea-Ei, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Hi, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Hod-Hor, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Hos-Hy, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: I, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Pe-Pf, 1942
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: La, 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Lo-Ly, 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Man-May, 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Me, 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: McCloy, John J., 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Myer, Dillon S., 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: N, 1943

Box 8

ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: O, 1943
ER Papers - 100 Personal Correspondence: Ta-Te, 1944
ER Papers - 100.1 Correspondence from Servicemen: Wo-Z, 1944
ER Papers - 130 News Items: Stu-We, 1942
ER Papers - 150.3 Positions SOught THrough Mrs. Roosevelt, 1943-1945
ER Papers - 150.9 Miscellaneous Reports, 1943-1944
ER Papers - 170, Appointments I-K, 1944
ER Papers: Correspondence: ER and Harry S. Truman, 1945-1960
ER Papers - ER Speech and Article File: Pan-American Coffee Bureau Program, Jan 11, 1942
ER Papers - ER Speech and Article File: Pan AMerican Coffee Bureau Program, Feb 15, 1942
ER Speech and Article FIle "A Challenge to American Sportsmanship" Colliers (Japanese Relocation Camps), Oct. 6, 1943
ER Pamphlet Collection: Japanese Americans
ER Photograph Collections - Subject File: Japanese Americans
James Roosevelt Papers - Legislation: Numerical FIle, 1959
James Roosevelt Papers - Legislation: Numerical File, 1962
Samuel I Rosenman Papers - General Correspondence: Cohen, Ben V.
Samuel I. Rosenman Papers - General Correspondence: Cox, Oscar
Samuel I. Rosenman Papers - Subject File: Aliena Property (1)
Samuel I. Rosenman Papers - Subject File: Aliena Property (2)
Samuel I. Rosenman Papers - Subject File: Aliena Property Custodian
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG: Alien Enemy Control Unit (1)
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG: Alien Enemy Control Unit (2)
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG - AECU Report on Japanese Americans in California

Box 9

James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG: Attorney General Memoranda
James H. Rowe Jr. Papers - AAG: Cox, Oscar
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG: Hawaii
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG: Immigration
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - AAG: McCloy, John
James H. Rowe, Jr. Papers - Roosevelt - Japanese Internment
Aubrey Williams Papers - General Files: War Reloaction Authority
Verticle File - Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
Verticle File - Fahy, Charles, 1892-1979
Verticle File - Japanese Americans - Evacuation Relocation, 1942-1945
Verticle File - McCloy, John J., 1895-1989
Verticle File - Myer, Dillon Seymour, 1891-1982
Verticle File - Rowe, James Henry, Jr. 1909-1984
Verticle File - Japanese Americans
General Photograph Collection - World War II: USA - Homefront - Japanese Relocation