On Feb. 19, 1942, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. About 120,000 out of 127,000 Japanese-Americans living in the continental U.S. were put in ten internment ...

The Livermore Public Library is set to host an honest look at life as a Japanese American during ... especially how Executive Order 9066 forcibly relocated them into incarceration camps,” library ...

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

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

With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...

Korematsu lost his battle against Order 9066 at the ... Roosevelt’s executive order authorizing the incarceration of more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent in camps throughout the nation.

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese ... And so, by Executive Order 9066, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized their removal and relocation to camps well inland. Throughout December ...