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On this date in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt signed the infamous executive order 9066, authorizing the War Department to establish military zones that would serve as internment camps for mostly Japanese and Italian Americans. After the United States entered World War II,...
NOTE: Today marks the anniversary of FDR signing executive order 9066, which authorized the “indefinite detention” of nearly 150,000 people on American soil. The order authorized the Secretary of War and the U.S. Army to create military zones “from which...
