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Mass Exclusion Orders Rescinded

history

The Army issued Public Proclamation 21, rescinding the mass exclusion orders effective Jan 2, 1945, and allowing most Japanese Americans to return to the West Coast-announced the day before the Supreme Court's Korematsu and Endo rulings. (Shares Dec 17 with the 1943 Magnuson Act.)

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • incarceration
  • law
Event type
  • legislation

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Also on December 17

resistance

Magnuson Act Repeals Chinese Exclusion

Congress repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act, allowing a small immigration quota and naturalization for Chinese immigrants.