Japanese Internment Timeline
1891 - Japanese immigrants arrive on the mainland U.S. for work primarily as agricultural laborers.
1906 - The San Francisco Board of Education passes a resolution to segregate children of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ancestry.
1913 - California passes the Alien Land Law, forbidding "all aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning land.
1924 - Congress passes the Immigration Act of 1924 effectively ending all Japanese immigration to the U.S.
November 1941 - Munson Report released (Document B).
December 7, 1941 - Japan bombs U.S. ships and planes at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii.
February 19, 1942 - President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 authorizing military authorities to exclude civilians from any areawithout trial or hearing.
January 1943 - The War Department announces the formation of a segregated unit of Japanese American soldiers.
January 1944 - The War Department imposes the draft on Japanese American men, including those incarcerated in the camps.
March 20, 1946 - Tule Lake "Segregation Center" closes. This is the last War Relocation Authority facility to close.
1980 - The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians is established.
1983 - The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians issues its report, Personal Justice Denied (Document D).
August 10, 1988 - President Ronald Reagan signs HR 442 into law. It acknowledges that the incarceration of more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese descent was unjust, and offers an apology and reparation payments of ,000 to each person incarcerated.
