What I’m Reading: Farewell to Manzanar – 1 in a series – “to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort.”

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What I'm Reading: Farewell to Manzanar - 1 in a series -

“February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort.”

From Farwell to Manzanar by by Jeanne Wakatsuki Housto and James D. Houston

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