In 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the federal government the power to remove Japanese Americans from their homes and confine them in incarceration camps. How did Japanese Americans resist this violation of their constitutional rights? In this lesson, students examine six historical documents to discover what Japanese Americans did at the time to challenge incarceration.jap
Image: Photo of a line for the dining hall at Manzanar Relocation Center taken by Ansel Adams in 1943. From the Library of Congress.
