Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT
1941 - After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, people of Japanese descent living on the Pacific Coast were relocated to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered World War II and soon after, fears of espionage and sabotage led to widespread discrimination against Japanese Americans living on the Pacific Coast. In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the relocation and internment of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of whom were U.S. citizens, to remote camps inland. One such camp was the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, where over 10,000 Japanese Americans were confined during the war years.

Heart Mountain, located near Cody, Wyoming, became one of the largest and most notorious of the internment camps. Surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers, the camp housed families in hastily constructed barracks under harsh living conditions. Despite these challenges, the internees formed communities, established schools, and even started newspapers within the camp. The internment experience profoundly impacted the Japanese American community, causing lasting economic, social, and psychological scars. In the decades following the war, the internment camps came to be recognized as a grave injustice, and efforts were made to compensate survivors and educate the public about this dark chapter in American history.

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