U.S. locks up ethnic Japanese
19th March 1942: "Japanese-Americans" will no longer be just evacuated from the west coast area but will be detained in camps around the country
On 19th March 1942 President Roosevelt issued an Executive Order1 establishing the War Relocation Authority.
Tension was running high on the west coast of America, with a real fear of…
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