“This trip is run by the Office of Asian Pacific American Student Services.  The USC Volunteer Center is providing technical assistance to support this spring breakservice learning opportunity.
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In 1942, fear and prejudice combined to confine nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, citizens and aliens alike, in relocation centers established by the U.S. government in remote areas west of the Mississippi River.  Many would not pass through the barbed wire fences surrounding the centers until the war was over.”
Sign up for the fourth annual Mini-Alternative Spring Break program sponsored by Asian Pacific American Student Services (APASS) to explore the history and reality of Manzanar National Historic Site, known during World War II as Manzanar War Relocation Center:   http://www.nps.gov/manz/