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Title: Executive Order 9165
Creator: Roosevelt, Franklin D.: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-05-19
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Materials in public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: The text of Executive Order 9165 which was intended to protect essential facilities from sabotage and other destructive acts. The order reviews previous related Executive Orders and then outlines new procedures to increase security at important military and government facilities. A list of federal agencies are included that were required to implement this new 'Facility Security Program.'
The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
Type: text
Format: Official documents
4 pages, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: sjs_fla_0509
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6334
Language: English
Subject: World War II
World War II--Administration
Executive orders--United States
Place: Washington D.C.
Source: San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt987024h5/
John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records

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