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Executive Order 9066 was issued by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. It granted the secretary of war and his commanders the power to exclude people from ‘military areas.’ While no group or location was specified in the order, it was applied to virtually all Japanese Americans on the West Coast.
Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. Between 1942 and 1945, a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas.
Hirabayashi objected to the way Japanese-Americans citizens were treated after Pearl Harbor. His fight took him to the Supreme Court and eventually an Arizona prison camp.
Families were stripped of their rights and freedoms in February 1942, when FDR signed Executive Order 9066
Advocates are pushing the Senate to approve a bill to make a former World War II internment camp into a national historic site by Feb. 19, the anniversary