Source alert: Marking the 80th anniversary of the WWII executive order exiling Japanese Americans to detention, USC experts bring past injustices into the present
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Though no reference to Japanese Americans appears in the order, an estimated 120,000 of them and their families — most of whom were citizens — were, in effect, incarcerated in detention centers across the western United States. USC experts can discuss the mass incarceration with […]