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Title: Executive Order 9066
Creator: Roosevelt, Franklin D.: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-02-19
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 9066 which authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas. This order allowed the Secretary of War to create the internment and incarceration camps as well as the authority to enforce compliance for evacuation.
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
2 pages, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: sjs_fla_0510
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/6335
Language: English
Subject: World War II
World War II--Administration
Executive orders--United States
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Exclusion Orders
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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