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*This article originally appeared on Modern Farmer on October 13, 2015. The summer of 1942 was hot, like most summers in central California. But that …
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I knew of Gene Oishi, the Nisei author of Fox Drum Bebop, well before I actually met him. This was because in 1968 he became …
Jimmy Makino sat in an internment camp in mid-1940s Arizona. Among a room of other Japanese Americans at the Gila River Relocation Center, the Alhambra …
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Read part 3 >> By late December of 1941, the armed services ceased accepting Japanese Americans either as volunteers or draftees, even though the Selective Service …
Claire Mix will never forget the day she first learned of the harsh realities that Japanese Americans faced during World War II and the role …
Growing up in the predominantly white city of Kelowna, British Columbia, Jeff Chiba Stearns felt very aware of being different from most of the people …
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The first national organization to speak out against the illegal incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was the Quakers. The Quakers have a …
Yes, there were Caucasians who visited the Gila River concentration camp in Arizona during World War II. Eleanor Roosevelt was one such visitor because our …
"Everywhere there is community feeling to be mended, vicious legislation to be defeated, many urgent jobs calling for attention from real friends of the real …
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More than 62 years ago, in September 1944, a baseball series pitted Gila River and Heart Mountain internment camps. It now seems like ancient history, …
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