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CRE 151 Japanese Internment Camps: America’s Great Mistake

 Japanese Internment Camps: America’s Great Mistake 1.       President D. Roosevelt declared Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harber a Date that will live in infamy -dec. 7, 1941. 2.       Feb. 19, 1942, Roosevelt ordered the mass removal from the West Coast of all persons deemed a threat to national security a.       Order 9066 applied exclusively to American Japanese =120,000 b.       Ordered from their homes -70% were American citizens c.       Took months d.       FBI detained 1,000 German and Italian Immigrants and 1,200 prominent Japanese Americans = suspected enemy aliens e.       Most lived on the West Coast or in U.S. territory of Hawaii. f.         Nisei second-generation Japanese Americans g.        Some were in serving in the Military -peremptorily discharged h.       Selective Service stopped accepting Japanese Americans trying to enlist i. But  after the Military realized the need for Japanese speakers in the ranks and the need for trained combat personnel..they shipped most Nis
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Chicano Movements: A Geographic History

Chicano Movements: A Geographic History The Chicano movement took shape in late 1960s and transformed the identity, the politics and community dynamics of Mexican Americans 1.       Movement had many dimensions, no single organization could represent the full range of agendas, objectives, tactics, approaches and ideologies that activist pursued. 2.       Largest/most notable organizations included United Farm Workers Union, Alianza Federal del Pueblos Libres, The Crusade for Justice and the Raza Unida Party (formerly the Mexican Youth Organization. 3.       Central to Chicano movements were student and youth organizations a.       Eg. Brown Berets and the United Mexican American Students, the Mexican American Student Confederation, and the Mexican Student Association -eventually merged to form El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicno/a de Aztlan (MECHA) in 1969 4.       Chino rather than Mexican American in title of org. was intentional a.       Chicano signaled rejection of Mexican American i
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