This order shall not be construed as modifying or limiting in any way the authority heretofore granted under Executive Order No. 8972, dated December 12, 1941, nor shall it be construed as ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This forced more than 125,000 Japanese Americans take just a small suitcase in hand. They were sent to camps in ...

The free event commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The order authorized the U.S. military to forcibly ...

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 ...

Like a rain cloud hanging overhead, Executive Order 9066 represents a dark day in U.S. history. INTERACTIVE: Our America: Defining Courage February 19, 1942, 82 years ago, President Franklin ...

FDR’s most notorious executive order, Order 9066, led to the use of detention camps for Japanese Americans during the war. Modern presidents have not been as prolific with executive orders as ...

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 surprise attack caught the U.S. military off-guard and ultimately brought the country into World War II.President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942.