Kansas City's Surprising Connection to Japanese Internment Camps
Kansas Cityâs Surprising Connection to Japanese Internment Camps Kansas Cityâs Surprising Connection to Japanese Internment Camps Understanding History During âA Very Turbulent Moment Right Nowâ In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese hysteria gripped the United States. Early in World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 commanding that âall persons of Japanese ancestryâ be moved into internment camps. The U.S. the government called them âassembly centers.â But some historians now believe that âc...