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On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
Executive Order 9066 authorized the government to remove civilians from military areas. Public Law 503 made violation of the executive order illegal. And in the following months, the military ...
Remembering Mitsuye Endo’s sacrifice to end Japanese American incarceration
President Joe Biden posthumously awarded Mitsuye Endo the Presidential Citizens Medal on Jan. 2 — a long-overdue recognition ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, Dies; Her Internment Inspired a Memoir
In “Farewell to Manzanar,” she wrote about the years she and her family were imprisoned in a camp for Japanese Americans. It ...