Murray Ed., What Did The Internment Of Japanese American Mean?

Abstract

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested more than 2000 Japanese "enemy aliens" on the U.S. West coast and in Hawai'i, most of them male immigrants. These arrests were followed in February 1942 by President Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of ethnic Japanese from the West coast. As a result, the government incarcerated 120,000 people, two-thirds of whom were American citizens. What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? examines this unfortunate episode in American history.