Print Civilian Instructions Poster (8x10) cap and incarceration of Japanese Americans

and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II devastated their sense of belonging and livelihoods that had taken 40 years to establish

why and how these tragic events took place are interwoven with more than 130 individual voices of those who were unconstitutionally incarcerated

and their racial-ethnic community

Scottish Fold

By John Christgau

Print Civilian Instructions Poster (8x10) cap and incarceration of Japanese AmericansSoon after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, this Civilian Exclusion Order and others like it, began appearing in public places all along the West Coast to notify people of Japanese ancestry of their impending forced removal from their homes. The orders instructed people to pack only what they could carry. Most of them suffered tremendous economic losses in addition to the humiliation of an unjust incarceration.