internment
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My parents met in a prison camp called the Minidoka Internment Center in the desolate Idaho desert, far from their homes in Seattle.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022
Internment was introduced on 9 August 1971 as a means of imprisoning people without trial amid escalating violence in the early years of the Troubles.
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2021
His most recent publication was “Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II,” which came out in 2015.
From Washington Times • Mar. 26, 2020
In recounting and collecting experiences as diverse as her own childhood in Koreatown as the child of immigrants, the history of Japanese Internment, the L.A.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2020
Internment camps were undeniably a thing of the past.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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Farewell to Manzanar
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