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By 1941, there were about 36,000 ethnic Japanese people in Los Angeles County. [3] Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized military commanders to exclude "any or all persons" from certain areas in the name of national defense, the Western Defense Command began ordering Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to present ...
Gordon Hirabayashi was convicted in terms of the violation of a curfew imposed at the time, which proclaimed that; . all persons of Japanese ancestry residing in such an area be within their place of residence daily between the hours of 8:00 p. m. and 6:00 a.m. [4]
The politics of prejudice: The anti-Japanese movement in California and the struggle for Japanese exclusion (Univ of California Press, 1977). MeGovney, Dudley O. "The anti-Japanese land laws of California and ten other states." California Law Review 35 (1947): 7+ [MeGovney, Dudley O. "The anti-Japanese land laws of California and ten other states."
The Politics of Prejudice: the Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion. Berkeley: University of California Press. Fletcher, Bill Jr., and Fernando Gapasin (2008). Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 9–18.
As many as 250 people in total worked on the newspaper over the course of its original five year run. [8] Though Gidra was created for the broader Asian American community, 78% of its staff in the first year was Japanese American. [7] Gidra practiced a non-hierarchical editorial organization and collective decision making. However, the paper ...
Matsumoto, Valerie J. Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919–1982 (1993) Modell John. The Economics and Politics of Racial Accommodation: The Japanese of Los Angeles, 1900–1942 (1977) Niiya, Brian, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present.
"Everyone was always like, 'Let me have five minutes with that b---h.' Everyone wanted to get justice for Selena. There's a target on her back,'' a former inmate said of killer Yolanda Saldívar.
Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in ranking to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry.