The Brooklyn College Listening Project

The BC Listening Project - launched in Spring 2015 - is a platform for supporting students to conduct interviews with members of the Brooklyn community.

Main BCLP homepage

Sample interviews conducted by BC students: double-click Brooklyn College Listening Project, then select an audio file.

Documents to use in conjunction with your interviews.

Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry (1942) and Registration questionnaire (1943)

Poster instructing all persons of Japanese descent to report to a Civilianian Control Station for evacuation to detainment camp, on order of U.S. Wartime Civil Control Administration.

Registration

In February 1943, incarcerated Japanese Americans were forced to fill out an Application for Leave Clearance, which soon became known as the "loyalty questionnaire." It included two questions which would have devastating consequences:

Question #27:
"Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered?"

Question #28:
"Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, or any other foreign government, power, or organization?

War Manpower Commission - Americans All (1942)

President Roosevelt's 1941 Executive Order 8802, which the poster quotes, prohibited discrimination based on "race, creed, color, or national origin" in defense production.

Executive Order 9066 (1942)

Transcript of Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)