On 19 February 1942, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers" hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
George Takei's childhood as one of the more than 120,000 mass incarcerated was memorialised in the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy".
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![[Illustration, Cover of 'They Called Us Enemy' by George Takei]
A child looks frightened at the viewer, a small suitcase in his hand, in the middle of a queue of people.
On the right stands a guard with a rifle and bayonet fixed.
In the background is a fenced-in 'relocation center' with barracks and a watchtower.](/proxy/post_attachment/53342/517c5ba02e.jpg "[Illustration, Cover of 'They Called Us Enemy' by George Takei]
A child looks frightened at the viewer, a small suitcase in his hand, in the middle of a queue of people.
On the right stands a guard with a rifle and bayonet fixed.
In the background is a fenced-in 'relocation center' with barracks and a watchtower.")
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