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Feb 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Eighty years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII. Three of those 120,000 were Min Imamura, Chiyoko Omachi, and Kaz Ideno. #DayofRemembranceuprooted.jasc-chicago.org
Min, Chiyoko, and Kaz were uprooted from their homes in California and imprisoned in camps located in remote deserts and swamps. Armed guards, watch towers, and barbed wire surrounded them.