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Toshio Mori endured internment camps and overcame discrimination to become the first Japanese American to publish a book of fiction

  • Written by Alessandro Meregaglia, Assistant Professor and Archivist, Boise State University
imageIn a 1949 photograph, Mori works in his family's nursery in San Leandro, Calif.Courtesy of Steven Y. Mori, CC BY-SA

Eighty years ago, on Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led to more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the western United States being moved into internment camps.

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