Today California lawmakers voted unanimously to apologize formally for the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII. Read more in the article below. You can learn more about Japanese internment in my online course SOC-984 Japanese Internment Camps: Pearl Harbor - Post Release. Complete this course on your time from 3 weeks to one year. Save $15 on my courses using the code Winter45.
California Lawmakers Expected To Apologize For U.S. Internment Of Japanese Americans
It's been just over 78 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the internment of Japanese Americans. Now the California Assemblyis expected to apologize for the role the state played in rounding up about 120,000 people - mainly U.S. citizens - and moving them into 10 camps, including two in California.