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"Japanese American internment." image. Britannica School, 22 Mar. 2025. school.eb.com/levels/high/assembly/view/217835.
"I am an American." by Dorothea Lange, Mar. 1942. Library of Congress, 14 Apr. 2025, https://loc.getarchive.net/media/oakland-calif-mar-1942-a-large-sign-reading-i-am-an-american-placed-in-the.
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