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, ...
A look back at the United States' checkered immigration history
In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...
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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 ...
California Sets Aside Jan. 30 to Honor Man Who Defied Japanese Internment
Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution was established under a bill by Assemblymen Warren Furutani, ...
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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 ...
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Scenes from the Japanese Internment Resonate Today
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 forced more than 120,000 people ... The emotional cost of what would be called the “Japanese internment” has been underestimated, says Satsuki Ina, who ...
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Japanese Americans
In 1940, Japanese-American farmers grew 95% of ... President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Its tone was carefully neutral: It authorized the War Department to designate “military ...
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain Butte, was one of ten internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans excluded from the West Coast during World War II ...