22. Asian Americans and the Modern Pacific Northwest
Proclamation #4417
On February 19, 1976, President Gerald Ford signed Proclamation #4417, which repealed Executive Order #9066 authorizing the internment of the Japanese during World War II. (Reproduced in, Roger Daniels, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1988. Plates following 174. Photo from the Gerald R. Ford presidential library.)