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This brief summary of Executive Order 9066 explains that on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which effectively made the forced removal of 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from their land into incarceration camps legal. This document goes onto explain that in 1976, President Gerald Ford declared that this had been a mistake, which eventually let to the 1990 decision to officially apologize for this injustice in the form of a restitution check of $20,000 for each survivor. Scrapbook page from Misao Okada’s album. Misao Okada’s scrapbook contains photographs, ephemera, notes, and correspondence documenting her time at Amache and a visit and reunion over 50 years later. The scrapbook also includes materials relating to reparations and events observing Japanese American incarceration.
Identity and values--Japanese American identity Redress and reparations World War II--Incarceration camps Executive orders--United States Post-World War II
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CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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