Executive Order 9066
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Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. According to the Nati
A Japanese-American owned grocery store, Oakland, California, March 1942
A Japanese-American girl imprisoned in an Arkansas internment camp walks to school in 1943.
President Gerald Ford signs a proclamation confirming the termination of Executive Order 9066 (February 19, 1976)
Gordon Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, Fred Korematsu
Manzanar
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Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had ove
Executive Order 9066
…Fred Korematsu Day Manzanar George Takei, Japanese American actor who was interned at one of the camps as a child and wrote a memoir about it titled They Called Us Enemy…
View of original entrance to Manzanar internment camp, November 2024
Unlined section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, just south of Manzanar near U.S. Route 395, 2007
Two-year-old Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa waits at Union Station for the train taking her and her mother to Manzanar (April 1942)
Wooden sign at entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center