feb 19, 1942 - Evacuation of U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent (1942)
Description:
- Executive Order No. 9066 under FDR- 120,000 were sent to "war relocation centers"
- Over 70,000 were U.S. citizens, none of whom were accused of disloyalty
- Most of them were from the west coast
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Date:
feb 19, 1942
Now
~ 83 years ago