1. 21 February 2012 · 08:38 AM · 936 notes

    futurejournalismproject:

    This Day in History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese Internment Camps

    On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 allowing the US military to create domestic exclusion zones and remove people from them.

    “Within days,” the Los Angeles Times reminds us, “the military began removing all Japanese Americans and Japanese from the West Coast.

    “Within months, about 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans – almost two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens –were moved to internment camps scattered through eastern California, Arizona and other Western States.”

    The LA Times Framework blog has a great slideshow of the images they published at that time.

    Images: Lead image is a sign notifying people of Japanese descent to report for relocation, via Wikipedia. Photos via the LA Times Framework blog.

    Meant to reblog this yesterday, but today works too. 

    I remember raging that my U.S. History textbook literally only had one short, measly paragraph about the internment. This is a very important part of our history, and we should learn and remember it, unless we want to repeat it (see talks of internment of American Muslims after 9/11).

    (Source: futurejournalismproject, via racialicious)

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      People shouldn’t forget, the US isn’t exactly innocent.
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      I appreciate this post. I havent’ seen some of these images before and both my grandparents and father were in the...
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