Executive Order 9066

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Executive Order 9066 has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Dan Carlin (Jun 2020). U.S. presidential order authorizing the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, discussed in the context of civil rights.

Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, the order "authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security" from the West Coast to inland 'relocation centers'. It resulted in the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. Two-thirds of the 125,000 people displaced were U.S