On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the creation of military areas along the west coast from which “any and all persons may be excluded” at the discretion of the Secretary of War. This order resulted in the mass deportation and incarceration of tens of thousands of Japanese-American citizens and residents of Japanese descent on the premise that they constituted a security risk vis-a-vis the war with Japan. These families were forced to leave their homes and nearly all of their belongings and were placed in remote military-guarded camps for the next two and a half years.
California State University, Dominguez Hills plans to mark this dark point in U.S. history with a number of activities and events.
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Schedule of Events
February 6-8, 2017
FILM SERIES (Download flyer [pdf]) Visit csudh.edu/9066 for more details.
This screenshot provided by the National World War II Museum shows the home page of the National World War II Museum’s new online archive project, in New Orleans, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. Executives at the museum say creating a vast online collection of 9,000 existing oral and written histories will take longer than the war was fought: 10 years and $11 million dollars. The task is enormous: thousands of hours of audio and video must be handled and millions of words transcribed. (National World War II Museum via AP)
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