Wartime-Repression

Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment

1942-02-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War and military commanders to designate “military areas” from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” Though the order never mentions Japanese Americans by name, …

Franklin D. Roosevelt War Relocation Authority U.S. Army Western Defense Command John L. DeWitt Milton Eisenhower +1 more civil-liberties racial-discrimination executive-overreach constitutional-violation property-seizure +1 more

Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners

1917-07-12 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

At dawn on July 12, 1917, a sheriff’s posse organized by Phelps Dodge copper company rounded up approximately 1,300 striking miners, labor organizers, and bystanders in Bisbee, Arizona, loaded them into cattle cars, and deported them to the New Mexico desert without food or water. The mass …

Phelps Dodge Corporation Walter Douglas Sheriff Harry Wheeler Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Cochise County Loyalty League labor-suppression corporate-violence iww progressive-era mining +1 more