FAREWELL TO MANZANAR

Reviewed 5/08/2012

Farewell To Manzanar, by Wakatsuki & Houston
Cover art by Pamela Patrick
FAREWELL TO MANZANAR
A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
James D. Houston
New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 1995

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-553-27258-1
ISBN-10 0-553-27258-6 203pp. SC $6.99

A Timeline of Japanese-American History

From Farewell To Manzanar

1869 The first Japanese to settle on the U.S. mainland arrive at Gold Hill, near Sacramento, California.
1870 U.S. Congress grants naturalization rights to free whites and people of African descent, omitting mention of oriental races.
1886 The Japanese government lifts its ban on emigration, allowing its citizens for the first time to make permanent moves to other countries.
1911 U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization orders that declarations of intent to file for citizenship can only be received from whites and from people of African descent, thus allowing courts to refuse naturalization to the Japanese.
1913 Alien Land Bill prevents Japanese aliens from owning land in California.
1924 Congress passes an Immigration Act stating that no alien ineligible for citizenship shall be admitted to the U.S. This stops all immigration from Japan.
1941 December 7: Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
1942 February 19: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort.
1942 March 25: Evacuees begin to arrive at Manzanar Camp, in Owens Valley, California, the first of the permanent camps to open.
1942 August 12: Evacuation completed, 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry removed from the west coast to ten inland camps.
1944 December 18: U.S. Supreme Court rules that loyal citizens cannot be held in detention camps against their will, the first major step toward the closing of the camps.
1945 November 21: Manzanar Camp officially closes.
1952 June: Congress passes Public Law 414, granting Japanese aliens the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens.
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