Jumping on the WWII bandwagon...
FDR was awesome. So awesome that he ordered all Japanese and Japanese Americans in the San Francisco area to live in internment camps in 1942. 62 percent of these people were US citizens. This picture was taken during a camp baggage check.
I think it's unfortunate that the Japanese Internment is one of the lesser known events of WWII - of course it is, it was a major screw up on the part of our government. Still I think it needs to be brought out into the limelight more as it can easily be connected to the issue of racial profiling today.
Image source: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od9066ph.html
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