February 19, 1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, issued a directive ordering all Japanese Americans (Nisei) evacuated from the West Coast of the U.S., and forcing them to live in concentration camps. Executive Order 9066 authorized the Secretary of War and military commanders “to prescribe military areas . . . from which any or all persons may be excluded.”

There was strong support from California Attorney General Earl Warren (later U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice), liberal journalist Walter Lippmann and Time magazine—which referred to California as "Japan's Sudetenland"

112,000 citizens of Japanese ancestry were relocated, losing their businesses, homes, and belongings to the white residents of their former neighborhoods.This day is referred to as the "Day of Remembrance.” It has been commemorated every year for 67 years to remind Americans of that miscarriage of justice, and to ensure such things do not happen again.

Mountain View, Calif. 1942(?). Members of the Shibuya family weeding a field on a ranch which they owned prior to evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry. The evacuees will be housed on War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

#MountainView #Calif #Shibuya #Japanese #California #USWar #DorotheaLanges #WorldWarII #JapaneseAmericans #ExecutiveOrder9066 #Lange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021643475/

Mountain View, Calif. Apr. 1942. A woman picking strawberries on a Santa Clara County ranch, operated by farmers of Japanese descent before their evacuation and housing in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

#MountainView #Calif #SantaClaraCounty #Japanese #California #WorldWarII #DorotheaLange #Japanese-American #American #Asian #ExecutiveOrder9066 #theWestCoast #America #SantaClara #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021643474/

Japanese Americans boarding bus

California baseball event revives Japanese American wartime history - The Mainichi

INDEPENDENCE, California (Kyodo) -- A baseball event featuring two amateur games was held Saturday at the site of a World War II-era incarceration camp in California to increase awareness of the lives of Japanese Americans who were confined in the facility more than 80 years ago.

#Baseball #Mazanar #incarceration
#WWII #JapaneseAmericans #ExecutiveOrder9066 #USA #AAPI

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241027/p2g/00m/0na/034000c

March 23, 1942 - The U.S. government began moving all those of Japanese ancestry, including some native-born U.S. citizens (known as nisei), from their west coast homes to indefinite imprisonment in detention centers, beginning with Manzanar in California which eventually held more than 10,000 Americans.
Located on 60,000 acres west of Los Angeles, it is now a national historic site; only 3 of the original 800 buildings remain.
#ExecutiveOrder9066

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, #FDR signed #ExecutiveOrder9066, leading to 120,000 #JapaneseAmericans being sent to #ConcentrationCamps for years. The #racist roots of this decision should not be forgotten.
(I took this photo at #Manzanar two years ago.)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-a-1924-immigration-act-laid-the-groundwork-for-japanese-american-incarceration-180983757/

On 19 February 1942, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers" hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.

George Takei's childhood as one of the more than 120,000 mass incarcerated was memorialised in the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy".

#ExecutiveOrder9066 #WW2 #IncarcerationOfJapaneseAmericans
#AntiAsianRacism

#DavidRovics song #Liberty and #Justice For All, "About #FDR's #ExecutiveOrder9066, which ordered the internment of most #Japanese #American men, women and children throughout the United States in 1941. Actor #GeorgeTakei was one of them, as a small child."
https://youtu.be/7sYZuwgjSHI

So much grace, forgiveness and good will in George Takei's heart. The unconstitutional and shameful US WW2 camps were done by a revered #Democrat & #Republicans are worse. Transparency & accountability.
@georgetakei

Remembrance for the Day the Cat Jumped.

And, as taught me by Dr. Ginger Wilson at Duke University when I was 13 years old: just as it’s necessary to remember the infamy of Dec. 7, 1941, so too must we remember the infamy of Executive Order 9066, which two months later authorized the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans — #Issei and #Nisei alike — from the West Coast of the United States to internment camps further inland.