One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
1942/02/19 - Washington DC President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.
By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps built by the U.S. military in scattered locations around the country.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984); Mr.- Mrs. Dennis Shimizu, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. (1943) - Mrs. Shimizu seated on couch with lacework, and Mr. Shimizu lying on bed, reading.
1944/12/17 - Washington DC U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issued Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that, effective January 2, 1945, Japanese-American evacuees from the West Coast could return to their homes.
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