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Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Arkansas.

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View Resource Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WW II Arkansas

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the Secretary of War the authority to designate "military areas from which to exclude certain people." As a result, over 120,000 Japanese-Americans were removed to relocation camps all over the United States for much of World War II. This site, developed by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's...

http://www.lifeinterrupted.org