Local efforts to document Japanese American incarceration show history repeating

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Executive Order 9066 was issued — the culmination of fomenting anti-Asian sentiment — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the removal of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast.

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