On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration camps in Idaho and California until 1945.
In this image three Japanese American men are looking at a map of exclusion districts for Seattle residents in the office of the Japanese-American Citizen's League.
Caption information source: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Civilian_exclusion_orders
ID Number: PI28060
Date: 1942
Physical Description: 1 acetate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
