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"We must evacuate our homes and churches and be taken to strange places, and we will not know what will happen to us. . . . [O]urs is a strange exodus."
-- The Reverend Lester Suzuki
The Roundup
Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to establish a War Relocation Authority. Military officers moved neighborhood by neighborhood to remove Japanese Americans and resident Japanese from the West Coast, acting on 108 different military "exclusion" orders.
Three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans of Japanese ancestry and Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register and then report within a week to hastily designated temporary detention centers. They had only days to dispose of businesses, homes, cars, and pets -- which they sold at rock-bottom prices, gave away, or left behind. |