In 1942, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 was sign by Franklin D. Roosevelt. This act would prove to be a tragedy for more than 100,000 Japanese Americans, primarily from the west coast. It turned the Pacific coast into an exclusion zone, which prohibited those of Japanese descent from living there in order to protect the United State from potential spying activity. These victims of wartime discrimination would be shipped off to internment centers known as “War Relocation Camps” and forced to live in appalling conditions for many months to come.
