📌 : "G9066" is often used as a cataloging tag in digital archives (like the National Archives or Densho) to identify footage related to the mass removal.
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This directive authorized the Secretary of War to designate military areas from which "any or all persons may be excluded." While the order never specifically named a racial group, its enforcement was directed exclusively at people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast—two-thirds of whom were American citizens. The Erasure of Civil Liberties g9066.mp4
: Evacuees were permitted to bring only what they could carry, forcing them to abandon heirlooms and pets. 📌 : "G9066" is often used as a
It took decades for the United States to formally acknowledge the injustice: This directive authorized the Secretary of War to