A study examined contemporary reactions of the Black American press to the relocation and internment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. Noting that the Black American press has been an activist press since its inception in 1827, it was hypothesized that Black newspapers would editorialize against the internment of Japanese American citizens because the evacuation and internment was in violation of their civil rights. All issues (114) of six Black weekly newspapers published between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the end of April 1945 were examined with special attention paid to the editorial and opinion columns. The results indicated that two papers contained no references to the Japanese internment. A third paper contained one veiled reference to the imminent internment of the Japanese. Two other papers contained columns vigorously objecting to the internment. Finally, the sixth paper, on the whole, objected to the internment, but also ran editorials encouraging Blacks to "return to the farm" and replace the Japanese in the coastal agricultural endeavors if their internment was inevitable. All of the papers were consistent in their protest of racial discrimination where they thought it existed and manifested itself, whether the Japanese internment was mentioned specifically or not. (HTH)