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Today in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were taken into custody. Another 45,000 Japanese nationals living in the United States were also incarcerated. #DayOfRemembrance #EO9066 A black and white photograph of a family moving their things out to the street.
#EO9066 was issued ten weeks after Pearl Harbor. Toku Shimomura of Seattle described the news of the attack in her diary, writing “Our future has become gloomy. I pray that God will stay with us.” #DayOfRemembrance A diary with Japanese writing inside.
Three months after Pearl Harbor, Americans of Japanese ancestry and Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register and then report within a week to hastily designated temporary detention centers. #EO9066 #DayOfRemembrance Exclusion Orders 69, showing were Japanese citizens would have to leave the area.
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