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A vintage U.S. flag with signatures of Japanese-Americans, including survivors of internment camps during World War II, has been donated to a museum in Los Angeles on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of their forced displacement.
Eighty years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the U.S. government to imprison Americans of Japanese descent in U.S. incarceration camps. This was in 1942, three years before Japanese-American soldiers risked their lives to free prisoners from the Nazis’ Dachau concentration camp.
Japanese American stories are American stories. They need to be taught in schools.
Eighty years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, stripping people of Japanese descent of their
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was shocked and, indeed, insulted that anyone would ascribe even a hint of racist intent to his recent statement that divided the electorate into African Americans and Americans: “If you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”