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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, soon to undergo a major renovation, a heart-tugging special exhibit in Skokie explores the ...
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The executive ...