Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Homework: Japanese internment questions

Date assigned
Wednesday, April 1


Assignment
Next Wednesday, April 8, we will have guest speakers in the choir room during 8th period who were interned by President Franklin Roosevelt's executive order 9066 in 1944.  Your tasks:

1) Read executive order 9066: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154

2) Read Justice's Black's majority decision from the Supreme Court case Korematsu vs. US: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5151

3) Write 5 questions you want to ask our speakers about their experience in the internment camp, the aftermath (reintegrating into American society), or anything else you can think of.


Due date
Wednesday, April 8

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