Japanese American internment, the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II
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He was an early and vocal critic of Japanese American internment and the Supreme Court decisions which supported it; in 1945 he wrote an influential paper in the Yale Law Journal which helped fuel the movement for restitution.
She was born at a time when other Japanese were being placed in internment camps (Japanese American internment).
In 1942, the Center suspended livestock exposition operations and served as a Civilian Assembly Center under President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States made it difficult to find interpreters.
In 1991 he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Days of Waiting, about Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian artist who went with her Japanese American husband to a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans.
John L. DeWitt (1880–1962), U.S. general in World War II who infamously helped initiate the Japanese-American internment