Silence of Civil Rights Groups in WWII

Civil rights groups actually stayed silent when the US government locked up Japanese Americans

during World War II. You would assume Black and Jewish organizations like

the NAACP or the ADL would be the first to scream about Executive Order 9066,

but they didn't. The truth is, they were terrified. They were so desperate to prove they were

loyal Americans and not subversive that they bought the government's lie about military

necessity. They were also too busy fighting their own battles against Jim Crow and the

Holocaust. It just shows that fear can make even the most oppressed groups turn a blind

eye to injustice.