February 15, 2002

Detaining Minority Citizens, Then and Now

By ROGER DANIELS

Sixty years ago, on February 19, 1942, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Although it mentioned no ethnic group by name, it was the instrument by which some 120,000 Japanese Americans, more than two-thirds of them American citizens, were incarcerated, without indictment or trial, in 10 desolate concentration camps in the interior of the United States.

In the months since the destruction of the World Trade Center and damage to the

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