The Japanese American internment of 1942 began on March 29, 1942

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 to “evacuate all persons deemed a threat from the ...
The American River Current

Proclamation No. 4 and the Internment of Japanese-Americans on the West Coast

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of “any or all persons” from military areas on Feb. 19, 1942. Although ...
Orange County Register

Remember Pearl Harbor, and the camps that followed

Although the Greatest Generation mostly is no longer with us, Americans always will remember the sacrifice that began Dec. 7, 1941. That’s when Imperial Japan attacked the U.S. bases at Pearl Harbor, ...
AOL

Japanese internment camp survivor reflects on the painful history of Heart Mountain

Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming. "Our family suffered a lot," ...
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Ruth Asawa, the brilliant Californian sculptor who survived post-Pearl Harbor psychosis

She is one of the great American artists, although her Japanese ancestry led her to an internment camp in 1942. The ...
Yahoo

See photos of the Pearl Harbor attack on its 84th anniversary

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States will mark the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday, ...
WBUR

The history of internment camps in Arizona

Long before World War II, the U.S. rounded up Native Americans and forced them onto reservations. After the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941, the U.S. rounded up another minority population, Japanese ...
East Bay Times

Local efforts to document Japanese American incarceration show history repeating

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Executive Order 9066 was issued — the culmination of fomenting anti-Asian sentiment — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of ...