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When Can We Go Back to America?: Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
Susan H. Kamei
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster BFYR/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-0144-9
Keywords: U.S. Constitution, internment camps, incarceration camps, Japanese-American, bigotry, redress, allyship
Exhaustively researched yet accessible history of the approximately 80,000 American citizens and their immigrant parents who were incarcerated without due process. First-person accounts, biographies, timeline, glossary.