Meet Our Museum: Executive Order 9066 and The Day of Remembrance
Meet Our Museum series at the National Museum of American History
Noriko Sanefuji, program assistant of the National Museum of American History’s Division of Work and Industry, explains the significance of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Location:
Presidential Reception Suite, 1st floor
National Museum of American History
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Metro:
Smithsonian or Federal Triangle
(Blue and Orange lines)
Signed on February 19, 1942, it eventually forced almost 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry—most of them U.S. citizens—from their homes and into federal detention camps scattered throughout the West, including California, Arizona, Colorado Wyoming, Utah, and Arkansas. Most spent the war behind barbed wire and under armed guard in remote areas—without due justice. Japanese Americans were assumed guilty of potential disloyalty solely on the basis of race.
This series of 30-minute informal talks gives visitors the opportunity to gain a behind-the-scenes perspective through interacting with museum staff and learning about historic objects.
Japanese in Canada were forced from their homes and into detention camps as well. History help us understand the pass.
Interesting, I didn’t know that so many Japanese were forced into camps here in the USA at that time. It’s really a tragedy that these things ever happen.