internment
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The 1994 case about the internment of Japanese American citizens is still relevant today as the Supreme Court has failed to fully contend with its legacy.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
In California, language related to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the history of Indigenous people in Death Valley and Muir Woods came under scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Before their internment, most of them came from poverty or jail before being enticed, or tricked, into fighting for Russia as mercenaries or on the promise of release from prison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2025
That hollow ache I carried during the early months of internment had shrunk, over the years, to a tiny sliver of suspicion about the very person I was.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
People are more familiar with the incarceration of Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens, but we still do remember the Alien Enemies Act internments as a shameful part of our history.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2025
"The section that will be used is occupied by the dead from a century ago and will not affect any recent internments," FWC said.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2024
Jay Tidmarsh, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, suggested the World War II internments as a possible comparable framework.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
In 1988, Congress formally apologized for the internments, and provided reparations checks of $20,000 to 82,000 victims.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
The populace has not molested alien enemies, and their government has not indulged in wholesale internments of enemies’ subjects.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
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Farewell to Manzanar
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World War II
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