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On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
on the suspicion he was Japanese. His arrest came as part of an effort to cut down espionage, sabotage and collusion in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Executive Order 9066 authorized ...
Japanese Americans returned from prison camps 80 years ago to face one of the country’s ‘greatest swindles’
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
Northwest Asian Weekly22h
Annual Day of Remembrance for incarcerated Japanese and Japanese Americans to be held on Feb. 8
The Puyallup Valley chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) will hold its 47th annual Day of Remembrance at ...
PBS2y
The Japanese American Experience of the World War II Era
An exploration of Executive Order 9066 and the resulting internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the failure of political leadership to protect constitutional rights, the military ...
Daily Breeze4d
California observing Fred Korematsu Day, honoring man who defied Japanese internment
honors the legacy of civil rights hero Fred Korematsu who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the U.S. Supreme Court ...
Mercury News21d
News Obituaries
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that forcibly relocated 125,000 Americans of Japanese descent to 10 internment camps throughout the country. Jeanne’s family was ...