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Justice at War: Executive Order 9066

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Justice at War : Executive Order #9066
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the forced relocation and
incarceration of over 100,000 Japanese American, proving once again that civil liberties are not absolute

Map of Japanese Internment; Was there an economic incentive for Japanese internment?

Review Forced Relocation 1838 vs 1942 ; Review Asian Mistreatent 1882 vs 1942

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, affected attitudes toward Japanese Americans: 15,000 Japanese Americans arrested as security risks prior to Executive Order #9066. Propaganda by the press in California stirred up preexisting anti–Japanese American sentiment.

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Popular culture—cartoons, films, Disney shorts all portray Japanese Americans as un-American.
Population breakdown: Issei (39,000 immigrants), Nisei and Sansei (72,000 second and third generation).

Middle School Letters 1942

Saratogian Headline Castle Swings at the Japs

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442nd Regimental Combat Team—the most decorated regiment that fought during World War II (Italy);

While at the same time family members in camps.

Learn how Karen Korematsu found out about her dad's Supreme Court case (audio only)

Post Script:

War Department official Eugene Rostow told a congressional committee in 1983 that Japanese Americans never were a military or security threat; 1988: Congress legislates an apology and $20,000 compensation ($40,000 in todays money)

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