When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, he caved to war hysteria and paved the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans.
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Never Again, where we will explore stories about the exclusion and detention of Japanese Americans during world war II. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, which unjustly called Japanese Americans a threat. Over 120,000 Japanese Americans and Latin Americans were incarcerated for over three years. The majority of the Japanese American detainees were from the West coast where they had excelled an
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In 1983, the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) asked, What if vandals broke into your home, sprayed graffiti, and ransacked your property simply because of race, gender, or religious affiliation? For some Japanese Americans during the 1940s, this was not a hypothetical question. The CWRIC s what if question really happened, as the nine-member commission explored in its investigation of the effects of Japanese American incarceration during World War II.