Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. EO 9066 was the catalyst that led to the forced incarceration of ... Two policemen post signs regarding the internment of Japanese Americans, 1942. Turlock ...

Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 forced more than 120,000 people ... The emotional cost of what would be called the “Japanese internment” has been underestimated, says Satsuki Ina, who ...

As many as 11,000 were sent to the Topaz internment ... Executive Order 9066 shows the challenges facing leaders in wartime, but also the overwhelming fear and heartache that Japanese Americans ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

An exploration of Executive Order 9066 and the resulting internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the failure of political leadership to protect constitutional rights, the military ...

The Heart Mountain Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain Butte, was one of ten internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans excluded from the West Coast during World War II ...

The release says Feb. 19 is a significant date for the Japanese American community, when, in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, giving the U.S. Army the authority ...

honors the legacy of civil rights hero Fred Korematsu who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the U.S. Supreme Court ...