Full text of Executive Order 9066 issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, which permitted the internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans. From Children of the Camps Web Site.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. This came after heated debate in Congress over possible legislation mandating the removal of Japanese immigrants ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 designated the majority of the West Coast as a military zone and banned anyone of Japanese descent from living there.

Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese-Americans in California and the U.S. as a whole.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the now-infamous Executive Order 9066 on this day in 1942, which gave military commanders the power to prescribe areas “from which any or all persons may ...

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This forced more than 125,000 Japanese Americans take just a small suitcase in hand. They were sent to camps in ...