5 million in grants from the NEH.

I vowed to bring this history back to Crystal City.a wall honoring local veterans of foreign wars.

said Crystal City Pilgrimage President Kaz Naganuma.It will be housed at the My Story Museum — The Story of Us: Tres Historias en Crystal City.The camp also imprisoned thousands of Latin American families of Japanese ancestry who were extradited from 13 countries in Central and South America as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange program.

The inclusion of Estradas exhibit in the museum is the latest result from years of collaboration between Crystal City leaders in the Mexican American community and Japanese American organizers located throughout the country.We were treated the same way as Japanese Americans in the 50s and 60s.

who helped organize a series of school walkouts in response to the unequal treatment that Mexican Americans were receiving at that time.

I was shocked and angry that I was never taught this history.but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

the grassroots is alive and well!Whos going to pick the fresh produce you enjoy?Mary Uyematsu Kao is the former publications coordinator of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (1987-2018).I chose not to live in negativity.

I just get the urge to relay my disgust and anger at times.These events seem to have been forgotten because many minorities have been able to assimilate into the Haves.