Event

The Impact of Executive Order 9066: Incarceration of Japanese Americans in WWII

Thursday, July 20, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Radmacher Meeting Room

The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II affected not only those who were incarcerated, but generations afterwards.

Civil rights violations and racial profiling led to the expulsion and incarceration of Japanese citizens as well as Japanese Americans from the west coast and southern Arizona in 1942. Each generation following this event was affected differently by the turmoil of this confinement. Members of the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society will give a first-hand account of what it was like to live in barracks that housed thousands of people.

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