On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. About 120,000 out of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living in the continental U.S. were put in ten internment ...
Too many Americans actively supported wartime roundup out of fear, racial prejudice and bigotry. Will it happen again?
Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...
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Councilman McOsker Motions to Preserve Japanese American Commercial Village on Terminal IslandLos Angeles City Councilman Tim McOsker introduced a motion Wednesday calling for the preservation of two buildings from the ...
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Commentary: The history of executive orders — Tom PurcellThe first executive order was signed by George Washington in 1789 to direct federal agencies on how to handle official ...
Feb. 19 at 6 p.m., two films portraying the resistance to injustice will be shown for free at the Veterans Memorial Theater ...
Tsuru for Solidarity planned on hosting a Day of Remembrance and Resistance event at Pike Place Market on Feb. 19, with the ...
Roosevelt, for example, used an executive order to force the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans to concentration camps. And in his first week of his second presidential term, Trump used ...
honors the legacy of civil rights hero Fred Korematsu who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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