The lives of Japanese-Americans were turned upside down after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order ...
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...
remember that Executive Order 9066 by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt uprooted American citizens of Japanese ancestry and sent them to massive internment camps. Imagine what an angry ...
President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...
In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...
After President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, on the heels of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were removed from coastal ...
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86.