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Injustice recalled as Japanese Americans detained in 1942 recalled
Washington AP recalls the 1942 evacuation order targeting all Japanese ancestry, uprooting 120,000 people without crime. President Carter forms a commission to examine the injustice, with hearings in Washington and a tour to major western cities and Alaska, led by Joan Z. Bernstein and other notable figures.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Japan
United States
America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Anchorage
Aleutian Islands
Pribilof Islands
Chicago
Joan Z. Bernstein
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
Robert F. Drinan
Massachusetts
Americans For Democratic Action
Daniel E. Lungren