In 1942, by Executive order 9066 signed into law by President Roosevelt, Japanese-Americans were forced from their homes and put in internment camps. All of California and large parts of Arizona, Oregon and Washington were restricted to Japanese-Americans based solely on ethnicity.
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Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. As a result, around 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent, most of whom were U.S. citizens, were forcibly relocated to internment camps across the country. This action was later widely criticized as a violation of civil liberties and was based on wartime hysteria rather than evidence of disloyalty. In 1988, the U.S. government formally apologized and provided reparations to surviving internees.
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May 9 1942 was a Saturday.
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