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internment camps  

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  • On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed military authorities to exclude “any or all persons” from areas they designated as a military or exclusion zone. On February 25, 1942, this order was used to begin excluding people of Japanese ancestry from the entire Pacific Coast. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Internment Camps]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZWHBW0RR-L

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