Yolo County Day of Remembrance of Executive Order 9066 Showing of “And Then They Came For Us.”
Monday February 26, 2024
5:30pm doors open, 6:00pm film, 7:00pm presentations, Q&A
Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th Street, Davis CA. FREE.
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt signed EO 9066 which ordered the forced detention of 120,000 Japanese Americans in WWII prisons - “internment camps.” The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians issued its report “Personal Justice Denied” (1983) concluding that EO 9066 “was not justified by military necessity, and the decisions which followed from it-detention, ending detention and ending exclusion-were not driven by analysis of military conditions. The broad historical causes which shaped these decisions were race prejudice, war hysteria, and failure of political leadership.”
