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S01E07: One Suitcase: The Japanese American Incarceration in California (1942–1946)
Episode Title:
One Suitcase: The Japanese American Incarceration in California (1942–1946)
Episode Description:
How the United States forced 120,000 people—most of them American citizens—out of their homes and into desert prison camps, and why it started long before Pearl Harbor. This episode traces the sixty-year runway of anti-Asian law in California, Executive Order 9066 and the machinery of removal, life inside the camps, the Nisei soldiers of the 442nd who volunteered from behind barbed wire, and the decades-long road to apology and redress. Grounded in real people—including a young man…
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