Day of Remembrance: FDR’s Internment Camps, Legacy of Shame
Seventy years later, let us never forget FDR’s legacy of shame, Executive Order 9066. See also: 70 Years After FDR’s Japanese Internment Camps (12)
70 Years After FDR’s Japanese Internment Camps
From Colorlines: This Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans who lived along the West Coast. The order came after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In the wake of the attack, Japanese-Americans…