Order 9066

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Chapter 8: Seeking Redress
02/07/2018 | 34 mins.
Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War Two demand that the federal government take account of their suffering and make reparations.
Chapter 7: Leaving Camp
25/06/2018 | 32 mins.
At the end of 1944, the U.S. government lifted the order barring people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Many people freed from camp faced racism and poverty as they tried to rebuild their lives. Some found that leaving camp was even harder than being sent there.
Childhood at Heart Mountain
18/06/2018 | 15 mins.
Two men who were imprisoned at Heart Mountain as boys remember their time in camp and how the experience shaped them as adults.
Chapter 6: Resistance
11/06/2018 | 36 mins.
The Japanese Americans who protested their incarceration and defied the pressure to prove their patriotism.
Objects of Incarceration
04/06/2018 | 10 mins.
A handmade pin tells an improbable love story from camp.

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Order 9066 chronicles the history of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration through vivid, first-person accounts of those who lived through it. The series explores how this shocking violation of American democracy came to pass, and its legacy in the present.

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