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The Mass Incarceration Of Japanese Americans In WW2 | Silent Sacrifice Part 2 (2021x163)

Air date: Dec 04, 2021

In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that cleared the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans in U.S. confinement camps. Men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry were evicted from the West Coast of the United States and held in sites across the country.