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The New York Times5y
California Plans to Apologize to Japanese-Americans Over Internment (Published 2020) - The New York Times
Nearly 80 years after Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps, the State Assembly plans to formally apologize for its role in the detention. By Maria Cramer Nearly 80 years after ...
New York Daily News2y
Remembering the Japanese-American internment camps during WWII - New York Daily News
American-born Japanese civilians in Los Angeles left their homes in 1942 for internment. Ten camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Arkansas held over 120,000 Japanese Americans ...
NPR8y
At 92, A Japanese-American Reflects On The Lessons Of Internment Camps - NPR
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was at a Los Angeles high school when she and other Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps. Decades later, her efforts helped lead to an official apology.
CNN5y
Japanese Internment: He was uprooted at 8 years old. 78 years later he’s getting an apology - CNN
Internment of Americans of Japanese descent was enacted by an executive order President Roosevelt issued following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Sahara was taken from ...
Fox 5 San Diego5y
Local woman whose parents were in Japanese American internment camp reacts to formal apology
The California assembly voted unanimously Thursday to apologize for its role of sending 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. Kay hopes the apology serves as a lesson learned. Kay Ochi ...
Time7y
Family Separation and a Hard Lesson From Japanese Internment | TIME
The images of children being detained in a converted Walmart and a tent city on the Texas border, she wrote, “are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II ...
LAist11y
From Wrong To Right: A U.S. Apology For Japanese Internment
More than 100,000 people of Japanese descent were put in camps during World War II. ... Japanese-Americans launched a campaign for redress that culminated in an official apology.
ABC74y
FACEism: President Reagan's apology for the US internment of Japanese Americans during World War II - ABC7 Los Angeles
It was 1988. Reagan apologized to an entire generation of Japanese Americans for unjustly locking them up during World War II. And, he admitted, it was because of their race -- and nothing more.
Los Angeles Times6y
Op-Ed: Japanese internment was wrong. Why do some of our leaders still try to justify it? - Los Angeles Times
Today, the vast majority of thinking Americans believe the enslavement of millions of people of African descent in the U.S. was immoral. It’s not even a question. We acknowledge our country’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine1y
The Injustice of Japanese-American Internment Camps Resonates Strongly to This Day - Smithsonian Magazine
T.A. Frail; Photographs by Paul Kitagaki Jr.; Historical Photographs by Dorothea Lange George Sumida (pictured in 2015 at age 90) says he’s not that angry about the internment. “It gave me a ...
Chicago Tribune8y
When Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps
Government photographers documented the internment camps, and when their work was exhibited in 1992, a critic was struck by a haunting image. “A World War I veteran, wearing his old uniform, (is ...