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How a 1924 Immigration Act Laid the Groundwork for Japanese American Incarceration
A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S.
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How a New Show Tears Down the Myths of Asian American History
Series producer Renee Tajima-Peña says the program is about “how we got where we are and where are we going next”
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