WWII INTERNMENT TIMELINE. August 18, 1941 In a letter to President Roosevelt, Representative John Dingell of Michigan suggests incarcerating 10,000 Hawaiian Japanese Americans as hostages to ...

Ten weeks later, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066, forcing nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast to relocate to internment camps.

Writer says the U.S. plans to lock up another specific group of people, as it did with Japanese Americans in the 1940s.

Traveling exhibit in Rancho Cordova explores complex history of Japanese internment camps 02:16. RANCHO CORDOVA — A new traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian has made its way to Rancho ...

During the United States’ involvement in the war, 112,000 “Japanese” were placed in internment camps. Some chose to move to Japan after the ill treatment by the US government. Japanese ...

Walk’s resignation, while inspiring, remained singular. No other WRA attorney followed his example of protest. It’s easy to condemn them for staying on the job — perhaps too easy.

Baseball before internment. In a more just world, the arc of Japanese American baseball would be unfettered by internment. The game was largely introduced to Japan in the late 19 th century by ...

President Donald Trump just invoked the Alien Enemies Act on March 15—without regard to its role in justifying the wrongful internment of Max, Susumu, and thousands of others during World War II.

The Italian internment camp of Maria Eisenstein’s 1944 memoir isn’t the hellscape of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Bergen-Belsen. In this former villa, no one is gassed or beaten to death or starved.