Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology
Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Compiled by Ulli Diemer
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February 19, 1942
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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the internment of Japanese-Americans. As a result, people of Japanese ancestry are excluded from the entire Pacific coast of the U.S. In total, about 110,000 people are forced into “War Relocation Camps”
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February 19, 1963
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Publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, one of the germinal works of the “second wave” of feminism in the United States.
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