Too many Americans actively supported wartime roundup out of fear, racial prejudice and bigotry. Will it happen again?
The event aimed to highlight the parallels between Japanese Americans’ incarceration during World War II and President Donald ...
Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...
Pike Place Market has cancelled grassroots advocacy organization Tsuru for Solidarity’s Day of Remembrance event, saying that ...
FDR’s most notorious executive order, Order 9066, led to the use of detention camps for Japanese Americans during the war. Modern presidents have not been as prolific with executive orders as ...
Tsuru for Solidarity planned on hosting a Day of Remembrance and Resistance event at Pike Place Market on Feb. 19, with the ...
Mayor Ray Jackson will officially proclaim that Feb. 19 be “Day of Remembrance” during the next regular town meeting, the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, forcing those “deemed a threat to ...
February 19, 1942, is significant in American history whereby U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It gave the U.S. Army authority during World War II to remove Japanese ...