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How Japanese American internment camp prisoners used art to survive during WWII

Immediately after the Imperial Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, American authorities began to round up Japanese immigrants on the West Coast and in Hawaii, who’d been living peacefully in this country since the turn of the century.  Specifically, the federal government targeted thousands of […]

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