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Termination of Executive Order 9066
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On February 19, 1976, President Gerald R. Ford issued a proclamation titled "An American Promise" that rescinded Executive Order 9066 . Though the proclamation called the mass removal and incarceration a "setback to fundamental American principles," it stopped short of containing an apology. Coming about as the result of a combination of grassroots activism and lobbying in Washington, DC, the proclamation was an important precursor to the Redress Movement .
For More Information
Hosokawa, Bill. JACL in Quest of Justice: The History of the Japanese American Citizens League . New York: William Morrow, 1982.
Murray, Alice Yang. Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
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