American Decades
Japanese Internment and the Law
Executive Order 9066
Executive order
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date: February 19, 1942
Source: President. Executive Order 9066. "Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas." Federal Register 7, no. 38, 1407, February 19, 1942. Available online at http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/execordr.html; website home page: http://www.library.arizona.edu (accessed April 24, 2003).
About the Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was born in Hyde Park, New York. He survived an adulthood bout with polio and rarely revealed his dependence upon a wheelchair. He and his wife Eleanor had six children, one of whom died in infancy. First elected in 1932, Roosevelt went on to win three more bids for the presidency, causing a...
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1940's Law and Justice Primary Sources
- Gobitas Perspectives
- U.S. v. Darby
- Executive Order 8802
- Japanese Internment and the Law
- Wickard v. Filburn
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Smith v. Allwright
- Executive Order 9835
- Shelley v. Kraemer
- Executive Order 9981
- "Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men"
- "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
