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1942
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1945
Japanese Americans Interned
After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast, citing national security concerns. Nearly 120,000 individuals, the majority of whom were American citizens, were relocated to internment camps under the auspices that they posed a threat to national security. Some Japanese Americans openly resisted the order and refused to present themselves for relocation, risking arrest. Forced to sell or abandon their property, Japanese Americans collectively lost billions of dollars in assets. In 1988, the Civil Liberties Act provided reparations of $20,000 per person interned.
Posters of Executive Order Issue 9066 posted on a neighborhood wall.
Nearly 120,000 individuals, the majority of whom were American citizens, were relocated to internment camps under the auspice that they posed a threat to national security.
United States
Sources
Internment History. The Children of the Camps Project. PBS, 1999. Date accessed: June 16, 2015.
