Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
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Similar legislation has been proposed in previous years, but Tuesday marked the first time the bill received a floor vote in nearly two decades.
In 2021, Brandon Elliot shouted expletives at the victim, telling her, “You don’t belong here,” before toppling her and stomping on her head and body repeatedly.
On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the forcible incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent – half of whom were children. It was shameful. Families were separated. Communities were torn apart. People were stripped of their dignity. And the unconstitutional and unconscionable policy was … Read more
Camp Amache once held more than 7,000 prisoners of Japanese descent. The park’s goal is to “tell a complete and honest story of our nation’s history,” officials say.
A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S.