Rabu, 25 April 2018

Harsh Winds Shake the Dust from Manzanar’s Past

Back in the early 1950s, when I was a high school student in Oregon, our American history teacher told us a sad story of how the civil rights we take for granted can disappear in time of war. Barely a decade earlier, just after Pearl Harbor, all Japanese Americans on the west coast—citizens and resident …

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