Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act : Congressional Hearing

Few people know that, in addition to more than 100,000 Japanese Amer. being interned during WW2, approx. 600,000 Italian Amer. (IA) were deprived of their civil liberties by Gov't. measures that branded them enemy aliens.Ó In fact, on Dec. 7, 1941, hours after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI took into custody hundreds of IA aliens previously classified as dangerousÓ & shipped them to camps where they were imprisoned until Italy surrendered in 1943. Org. that gave testimony on the treatment of IA as enemy aliens during the war include : Nat. Italian Amer. Fdn.; Amer. Italian Hist. Assoc.; Nat. Italian Amer. Council; & Order of the Sons of Italy in America.Canady, Charles T. is the author of 'Wartime Violations of Italian American Civil Liberties Act : Congressional Hearing', published 2001 under ISBN 9780756712587 and ISBN 0756712580.