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  2. Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Many Nisei worked to prove themselves as loyal American citizens. Of the 20,000 Japanese Americans who served in the Army during World War II, [173] "many Japanese American soldiers had gone to war to fight racism at home" [181] and they were "proving with their blood, their limbs, and their bodies that they were truly American". [182]

  3. Executive Order 9066 - Wikipedia

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    Sign posted notifying people of Japanese descent to report for incarceration A girl detained in Arkansas walks to school in 1943.. Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942.

  4. Executive Order 9102 - Wikipedia

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    Executive Order 9102 is a United States presidential executive order creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the US civilian agency responsible for the forced relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

  5. Korematsu v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Japanese American Assembly Center at Tanforan race track, San Bruno. In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the report of the First Roberts Commission, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the War Department to create military areas from which any or all Americans might be excluded, and to provide for the necessary ...

  6. The Supreme Court just quietly overturned a decision that ...

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    Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led the US government to force more than 100K people of Japanese descent into detention camps. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led the US ...

  7. Japanese from Latin America, forced into U.S. wartime ... - AOL

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    With the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 that created the World War II camps, advocates seek full reparations for the internees from Latin America.

  8. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda shares emotional family story from ...

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    This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. were ordered into internment camps during World War II, and the emotions have reverberated ...

  9. War Relocation Authority - Wikipedia

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    The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also operated the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York , which was the only refugee camp set up in the United States for refugees from Europe. [ 1 ]