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americanhistory.si.edu
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| | | | | The exhibition explored Japanese American history through the Executive Order 9066 document on loan from the National Archives; original artwork by Roger Shimomura, who spent several years in the Minidoka camp in Idaho; historic images; and objects. | |
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features.apmreports.org
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| | | | | President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 just months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced from their homes on the West Coast and sent to one of ten "relocation" camps, where they were imprisoned behind barbed wire for the length of the war. Two-thirds of them were American citizens. | |
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www.currentaffairs.org
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| | | | | "It may be tempting, in such circumstances, to believe that being good-the quintessential model minority-and patriotic towards America will spare us from the worst. But neither amounts to a foolproof shield against racism." | |
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cbs6albany.com
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| | | A Gloversville man was sentenced to 41 months in prison for conspiring to commit bank robbery in Johnstown, and for illegal gun possession. | ||
