Broadside Ordering the Forced Removal of Japanese Americans from San Francisco, 1942

Western Defense Command

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[Japanese American][Internment][WWII] Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41 issued April 24, 1942 by the Western Defense Command ordered the removal of all persons of Japanese ancestry from a residential district of San Francisco during the early enforcement of Executive Order 9066. The broadside documents the administrative mechanisms used by the United States Army to carry out the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II. Rare original broadside issued by the U.S. Army's Western Defense Command on April 24, 1942, ordering the forced removal of all Japanese Americans from a residential district of San Francisco. This Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41, issued under the authority of Lieutenant General J. L. DeWitt, marked a critical early phase of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The notice explicitly targets "all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien," mandating that they report for relocation to a designated Civil Control Station at 1530 Buchanan Street, San Francisco California between May 6 and May 7, 1942. Failure to comply subjected individuals to "criminal penalties provided by Public Law No. 503" and potential "immediate apprehension and internment." The text of the broadside outlines the geographic boundaries of the designated exclusion zone within the city. The exclusion order mandates that a "responsible member of each family, and each individual living alone" report to authorities, initiating the logistical process for forced removal and confinement. The formality of the language, coupled with the blunt legal threat, highlights the bureaucratic efficiency with which civil liberties were stripped from a racially targeted population. This exclusion order reflects the broader federal program that uprooted and incarcerated over 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were legally U.S. citizens, primarily on the West Coast under the pretext of national security. Documents like this one were posted publicly in neighborhoods across California, Oregon, and Washington, providing official notice of impending forced removal. The stark typography and impersonal language belie the human devastation behind the policy. Complete and clean. Overall near fine condition. A historically significant artifact of wartime racial profiling and a sobering reminder of the fragility of constitutional protections during times of crisis. Rare in such well-preserved condition. N° de réf. du vendeur 22408

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Titre : Broadside Ordering the Forced Removal of ...
Date d'édition : 1942