WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah, during World War II with the Congressional ...

"Oh, my, how handsome. He looked good to me," said Jane. Her family was sent to an internment camp in Arkansas. George's family was sent to an internment camp in Colorado. "The government tells ...

Young Jack was an American citizen but was forced to leave his home in Imperial Valley along with his family and relocate to an internment camp in Arizona because they were of Japanese ancestry.

EDITORIAL: Lessons from the ugly Fred Korematsu decision in 1944 Eventually most were sent to relocation centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or ...

SANTA CRUZ — Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar ...

It became the basis for a TV movie. By Richard Sandomir Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir about living as a child in an internment camp during World War II put a personal stamp on the ...

A group of U.S. lawmakers are pushing to posthumously award a civil rights activist held in the Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah, during World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal. U.S. Rep ...

The agency itself conceded that the camps ‘were bad for the evacuated people and bad for the future health of American democracy.'” In 1943, one WRA lawyer chose to take a stand. Maurice Walk ...

Historian and educator Sam Mihara will deliver the 2024 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and his personal experiences as a ...

George Takei is well known for his role in Star Trek and as the voice behind characters in nationally beloved movies and ...