On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This order resulted in 125,284 Japanese Americans - over 77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens - being forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated in concentration camps for over 5 years without due process because they were labeled as "enemy threats."
Within 10 days, Japanese Americans lost their homes, careers, businesses, farms, personal belongings, and were expelled from schools. Societal racism directly contributed to the fate of Japanese Americans before World War II, and their experiences and choices after. In 1984, the U.S. government, through President Ronald Reagan, officially apologized and gave reparations to surviving internees.