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 ...

Feb. 19 at 6 p.m., two films portraying the resistance to injustice will be shown for free at the Veterans Memorial Theater ...

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

Los Angeles City Councilman Tim McOsker introduced a motion Wednesday calling for the preservation of two buildings from the Japanese American Commercial Village on Terminal Island. The buildings, ...

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

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.

Tsuru for Solidarity planned on hosting a Day of Remembrance and Resistance event at Pike Place Market on Feb. 19, with the ...