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Digital access to the papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt related to Japanese American internment, an executive order that targeted U.S. citizens and resident aliens and uprooted entire communities.
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In an atmosphere of hysteria following U.S. entry into the Second World War, and with the support of officials at all levels of the federal government, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the U.S. military broad powers to ban any citizen from a wide coastal area stretching from the state of Washington to California and extending inland into southern Arizona.
Coverage: 1933-1988
Vendor: Gale
Producer: Gale
Interlibrary Loan Type: Not Permitted
Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users