Today in History: Japanese Americans Imprisoned During World War II

On this day (February 19) in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and authorized the creation of internment camps to which he would eventually send 120,000 Japanese American citizens for the crime of being Japanese after Pearl Harbor. In his autobiography, George Takei, (Sulu, of Star Trek) describes the pain he and his family felt when they were ripped from their homes and imprisoned for the crime of being a Japanese American.