The Metropolitan King County Council held a ceremony on Feb. 21 to recognize it has been 75 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. 9,600 Japanese-American residents of King County were among the incarcerated. “As one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were uprooted and removed from the West […]
University of Washington marks 75th anniversary of injustice and American concentration camps
By James Tabafunda Northwest Asian Weekly When race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership combine to cause the removal of University of Washington (UW) students, professors, and others, the annual Day of Remembrance takes on a special meaning. The university held a panel discussion entitled “How Could Concentration Camps Happen?” on […]