George Takei got reparations. He says they ‘strengthen the integrity of America’

George Takei testifies before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in California in 1981.

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

(Image credit: Kaz Takeuchi/Visual Communications Photographic Archive)

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.