Existing comment:
Central Utah Relocation Center
(Topaz Internment Camp)
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9077. Without any judicial hearings and due process of law, more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were forcibly uprooted from their homes and taken under armed guard for relocation and detention in a system of assembly centers and internment camps.
Over 8,100 Japanese Americans were confined here at Topaz, including Fred Korematsu and Mitsuye Endo, whose involvement in landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases challenged the constitutionality of the exclusion and relocation. In December 1944 the Court held that "admittedly loyal" citizens could not be deprives of their liberty and held in relocation centers.
This site possess national significance in illustrating the history of United States of America
2007
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior |