SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California legislators are expected to pass a resolution condemning the state’s role in the U.S. government’s internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order in 1942 led to incarcerations at 10 camps, two in California. The Democratic assemblyman who introduced the resolution, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrence, said the state would be apologizing for a time when "California led the racist anti-Japanese American movement.”
The measure has bipartisan support, a rarity in the Legislature. A similar resolution will be brought up before the state Senate by Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento.
The California Museum in Sacramento hosts a permanent exhibit titled "UpRooted Japanese Americans in World War II" which teaches visitors about Japanese American history in California. The exhibit is the longest running at the California Museum.
Les Ouchida, a docent for the exhibit, and his family were forced to move in 1942 from their home near Sacramento to a camp in Jerome, Arkansas.
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