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

By John Christgau

they may still be living and creating more history

and become judo history’s only woman to attain the pinnacle 10th degree black belt

Print Civilian Instructions Poster (8x10) cap Scottish FoldSoon 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.