Scarce Internment Proclamation
Public Proclamation No. 6. June 2, 1942
Publication: Presidio of San Francisco, California: Headquarters, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army, 1942. First Edition.
Notes: The forced internment of Japanese residents and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor was bureaucratic, with new rules imposed every few weeks. This is an original copy of the sixth of what would ultimately be more than twenty proclamations. It placed a curfew and movement restrictions on Japanese Americans and Japanese residents living in the part of California designated as Military Area No. 2, or the eastern part of the state (the forced evacuation of the coast areas was already underway). This proclamation also announced that "all alien Japanese and all persons of Japanese ancestry will be excluded from said California portion of Military Area No. 2 by future orders."
While not as well known as the proclamations announcing the removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans, these subsequent orders help tell the story of how people were systematically deprived of civil rights during the Second World War.
A single sheet, folded to make four pages (in this copy, the final page is blank; there are also copies with a printed return address on this page, for mailing). 6 by 9 inches.
Edition + Condition: First and last pages tanned from contact with newsprint or similar paper, thus very good.
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