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In the last decade, at least 20 states have passed laws or policies that restrict how history can be taught in schools. Since ...
The president heads to “ Alligator Alcatraz ” on Tuesday. The evocative name refers to a detention, processing and ...
During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and ...
Obata, detained in a World War II internment camp for people of Japanese descent, urged turning to "Great Nature" to ...
Two of the nation's internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II were in Arizona. For a time they became the state’s third and fourth biggest cities.
Saburo Kido (far right), National President of the Japanese American Citizens League, a civil rights group, with other lawyers at Poston Camp Number 1 in Poston, Arizona, on Jan. 4, 1943.
Mihara’s father lost his eyesight in the internment camp due to untreated glaucoma, as there were no specialists available and the government refused to let him seek medical care. Mihara’s grandfather ...
When World War II broke out, the U.S. government forced Sam, at the age of 9, and his family to move to the Heart Mountain War Relocation Camp in Wyoming — one of 10 prison camps across the ...
Several hundred men from the camp were sent to the 442nd Regional Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit made up of about 18,000 men who received, in total, 4,000 Purple Hearts, 4,000 ...
At Holly Creek retirement community in Centennial, three residents, each an American of Japanese descent, were incarcerated in an internment camp. They are Ruth Kawamura, Carol Mizoue Furuta, and Jane ...
In 1942, Sam Mihara, a U.S.-born citizen, was just 9 years old when he and his family were forced to move from their home in San Francisco to a remote Japanese-American internment camp in Wyoming ...