Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the exclusion of more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent from the West Coast. It also cleared the way for their eventual incarceration in War Relocation Authority camps, where people were kept until the end of 1945.
We have taken the original order and broken it down, piece by piece, by speaking with experts, historians and the people who lived through the camps.
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