President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the now-infamous Executive Order 9066 on this day in 1942, which gave military commanders the power to prescribe areas “from which any or all persons may be ...
Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese Americans in California and the U.S. as a whole.The order came in the wake of the ...
SEATTLE — Wednesday, Feb. 19, marked a grim anniversary in American history: Eighty-three years ago, an executive order led to the mass incarceration of thousands of Japanese Americans. The trauma ...
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forcible relocation of more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent — at least 70,000 of whom were American citizens ...
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