Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942)
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Citation: Executive Order 9066, February 19, 1942; General Records of the Unites States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to "relocation centers" further inland – resulting in the incarceration of Japanese Americans.