Japanese American Internment: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library

President Roosevelt���s Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the U.S. military broad powers to ban any citizen from a wide coastal area stretching from the state of Washington to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. The order also authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington. This publication consists of the documents from The Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Small Collections, ���Japanese American Internment Collections,��� in the custody of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.