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One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever
Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision ...
Deseret News archives: Japanese relocation orders officially come to an end in 1944
U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command rescinded orders to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during ...
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Japanese Americans’ pain over their mass incarceration has been minimized. New essays let them speak
The Los Angeles Times will no longer use “internment” to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. March 16, 2023 In the same camp ...
Artist’s first stop in WWII internment was Pomona fairgrounds
Estelle Ishigo sketched and wrote about her experiences, including Japanese Americans’ first sight of “guard towers and ...
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Japanese Americans
67% of the fresh tomatoes and 44% of the onions in California. 110,000 Japanese Americans were held in 10 internment camps from May 1942 to January 1945. Japanese Americans comprised 40% of Hawaii ...
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Japanese Americans reclaim power with historic baseball game at Manzanar prison camp
The afternoon brought an all-star game — Southern California players from the Japanese American League ... While incarcerated at Gila River, a concentration camp in Arizona, during WWII, his ...
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In an internment camp, all they had was baseball. They’re back to play.
First, the tumbleweeds were cleared. Then, an archaeological dig found the posts for the backstop and the bases. Finally, old black-and-white photographs unearthed in an archive in Los Angeles ...
Exhibit on internment of Japanese Americans explores the trauma, tenacity in a dark moment in U.S. history
Third-generation Japanese American artists process the impact of incarceration on their parents' generation and their lives afterward in “Resilience — A Sansei Sense of Legacy" at the Illinois ...