Government
Feb. 16, 2012
70 years later: the lessons of Executive Order 9066
70 years after the forced evacuations of Japanese Americans from their homes, what have we learned? By Gordon Yamate of the Japanese American National Museum and Seth Gerber of the Anti-Defamation League
The 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 marks one of the saddest tragedies of our great country: the compulsory expulsion from their homes and false imprisonment of Americans of Japanese ancestry on U.S. soil during World War II. The signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, is often seen as the first domino to fall in a chain of xenophobic and racist events against Japanese Americans d...
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