"The internment of Japanese Americans was a violation of the Constitution and its guarantee of equal protection under the law--yet it was authorized by a presidential order, given substance by an act of Congress, and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Japanese American internment is a topic that we as Americans cannot afford to forget or be ignorant of. This work spotlights an important subject that is often only described in a cursory fashion in general textbooks. It provides a comprehensive, accessible treatment of the events of Japanese American internment that includes topical, event, and biographical entries; a chronology and comprehensive bibliography; and primary documents that help bring the event to life for readers and promote inquiry and critical thinking."--Page 4 of cover.

Introduction -- Chronology -- Encyclopedia entries -- "ABC"list -- Aiso, John F. -- American Civil Liberties Union -- American Friends Service Committee -- Anti-Asian Movement -- Bendetsen, Karl R. -- Biddle, Francis B. -- Civil Liberties Act -- Collins, Wayne M. -- Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians -- Concentration camps -- D'Aquino, Iva Toguri -- Day of Remembrance -- Denationalization Act -- DeWitt, John L. -- Eisenhower, Milton S. -- Endo, Mitsuye -- Evacuation -- Executive Order 9066 -- Fair Play Committee (Heart Mountain) -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- 442nd Regimental Combat Team -- German Americans -- Hirabayashi, Gordon K. -- Hohri, William Minoru -- Hood River incident -- Hosokawa, William -- Ickes, Harold L. -- Internal Security Act -- Ishigo, Estelle -- Issei -- Italian Americans -- Japanese American Citizens League -- Japanese American Claims Act -- Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study -- Japanese Latin Americans -- Kibei -- Kibuchi, Charles -- Korematsu, Fred -- Kurihara, Joseph Yoshisuke -- Kuroki, Ben -- Loyalty questionnaire -- MAGIC intercepts -- Manzanar pilgrimage -- Manzanar riot -- Martial law -- Masaoka, Mike -- McCarran-Walter Act -- McCloy, John J. -- Military Intelligence Service Language School -- Military necessity -- Munson Report -- Myer, Dillon S. -- National Japanese Student Relocation Council -- Ni'ihau incident -- Nisei -- Nisei Student Relocation Commemorative Fund -- Obata, Chiura -- Okada, John -- Okamoto, Kiyoshi -- Okubo, Mine -- Omura, James -- 100th Infantry Battalion -- Pearl Harbor -- Poston Strike -- Public Law 503 -- Redress and reparations -- Resettlement -- Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Santa Anita riot -- Seabrook Farms -- Slocum, Tokutaro -- Soga, Yasutaro -- Summerall Report -- Thomas, Dorothy Swaine -- Tolan Committee -- Tule Lake riot -- Uchida, Yoshiko -- Uno, Edison -- Varsity Victory Volunteers -- War brides -- War Relocation Authority -- Wartime Civil Control Administration -- Western Defense Command -- Women's Army Corps -- Writ of error : coram nobis -- Yahui, Minoru -- Yellow Peril -- Yoneda, Karl G. -- Camps, centers, and prisons -- Assembly centers -- Fresno -- Marysville -- Mayer -- Merced -- Pinedale -- Pomona -- Portland -- Puyallup -- Sacramento -- Salinas -- Santa Anita -- Stockton -- Tanforan -- Tulare -- Turlock -- Department of Justice camps -- Crystal City -- Fort Lincoln -- Fort Missoula -- Fort Stanton -- Kenedy -- Kooskia -- Santa Fe -- Seagoville -- Federal Bureau of Prisons -- Catalina Federal Honor Camp -- Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary -- McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary -- U.S. Army Internment camps -- Alaska -- Fort Richardson -- Continent -- Camp Forrest -- Camp Livingston -- Camp McCoy -- Fort Sam Houston -- Fort Sill -- Lordsburg -- Stringtown -- Hawaii -- Ha'iku -- Honouliuli -- Kalaheo -- Kilauea -- Sand Island -- Waiakea -- Wailua -- War Relocation Authority camps -- Gila River -- Granada -- Heart Mountain -- Jerome -- Manzanar -- Minidoka -- Poston -- Rohwer -- Topaz -- Tule Lake -- War Relocation Authority (WRA) Citizen Isolation centers -- Moab -- Leupp -- Primary documents --1. "My last day at home" : a student writes of Japanese internment -- 2. The Ringle Report -- 3. Executive Order 9066 -- 4. Public Law 503 -- 5. Letter from teacher to student -- 6. Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry -- 7. Letters of a couple interned apart -- 8. "The fence" by an evacuee (1943) -- 9. Beauty School Program -- 10. Campus newspaper -- 11. Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- 12. Commencement program -- 13. Memoirs of Shigeo Kikuchi -- 14. Memoirs of Seiichi Higashide -- 15. Last Witnesses.