internment camp

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-17-18
  

  Isamu Shibayama Dies at 88, His Quest for Reparations Unfulfilled

  His family was deported from Peru to an American wartime internment camp, setting him on a mission to have the wrongs redressed. He died still waiting.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6-26-18
  

  The travel ban decision echoes some of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history

  by Aziz Huq

  The logic SCOTUS used to uphold the travel ban would justify Japanese internment camps.

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• 2-5-17
  

  Suddenly What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Newly Relevant

  by Shirley Ann Higuchi

  This is one family’s story.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  6-29-16
  

  WWII-Era Japanese-American Internment Camp Excavated

  A World War II-era internment camp near Heart Mountain, Wyoming, is under excavation by archaeologists keen to understand the everyday lives of the Japanese-Americans incarcerated there.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  7-31-15
  

  It’s a national historic site, but hardly anybody visits the Idaho internment camp where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated in WW II

  There’s not even a visitor’s center.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  2-18-15
  

  Obama to create national monument at Hawaii internment camp

  The White House told the Times that the designation, to be made Thursday, is meant to recognize “the fragility of civil rights during times of conflict.”

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• SOURCE: The Tico Times
  12-15-14
  

  The story of Costa Rica's forgotten World War II internment camp

  La Tribuna, a Costa Rican newspaper, captured the surreal situation in an article dated Dec. 11, 1941 trumpeting the speedy construction of a “concentration camp” to be built in San José and designed to hold 400 men of German, Italian or Japanese descent.