U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for February 19: Japanese Internment

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

JAPANESE INTERNMENT

Profile America — Friday, February 19th. On this date in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order requiring Japanese-Americans living along the Pacific Coast to be relocated inland. This order affected some 77,000 citizens and 43,000 resident aliens. The internment lasted throughout the Second World War, and the camps closed by early 1946. The dislocation caused by the internment order singling out an ancestry group came to be widely regretted and led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, formally apologizing for the action and offering financial restitution. Today in the U.S., there are an estimated 1.37 million residents of Japanese ancestry. Over 48 percent of that total is mixed with other ethnicities and races. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.

Sources:
Executive order/accessed 12/1/15: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154 
WWII internment story/accessed 12/1/15: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/internment_menu.cfm 
Japanese population in U.S. (alone or in combination):
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_14_1YR_S0201&prodType=table 
Japanese ancestry alone: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_13_5YR_B02006&prodType=table

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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