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Japanese American internment

Heart Mountain War Relocation Center

How two lives came together at a Japanese American internment camp

Conflict

As a child, the prospect of an overnight journey by train sounded exciting, but the reality of the situation soon sunk in — Norman had become one of the nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry interned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Jack’s Sketches

Jack’s Sketches

The World

Baseball in Japanese internment camps

Conflict & Justice
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