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How Japanese Americans Survived Internment in WW2

HISTORY LESSON

120,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned in the U.S. in internment camps during World War II. Their lives and stories are remembered in an exhibition in San Francisco.

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Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

Melissa Ayumi Bailey’s maternal grandparents met and fell in love at an internment camp in Wyoming. The Civilian Exclusion Orders (enacting Franklin Delano Roosevelt) forced them and hundreds of thousands of other Japanese

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