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A Look Back at the Executive Order that Cleared the Way for Internment

Name: A Look Back at the Executive Order that Cleared the Way for Internment
Uploaded: 2017-01-30T16:45:09.000Z
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Description: On Feb.19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast.

On Feb.19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast.