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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is honored to host a program commemorating the National Day of Remembrance. 

This program will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 that enabled the wrongful incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and the following years of hard-fought reckoning and reconciliation.

The museum and its partners will discuss the legacy of the Smithsonian’s 1987 exhibition “A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S Constitution,” which brought to light the history of Japanese American incarceration, the important and imperfect process of reckoning for the Japanese American community and its allies, the compounding related issues our country still faces today, and a vision for our shared future.