Karalee Wong Nakatsuka

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Ralph Lazo was a Latine teen who volunteered to go to a Japanese concentration camp to be in solidarity with his friends. When he turned himself in to authorities, they thought he was Japanese. “Being brown has its advantages,” he would later tell the LA Times. www.history.com/articles/jap...

This Mexican American Teenager Spent Years in a Japanese Internment Camp—On Purpose | HISTORY

Ralph Lazo wasn’t of Japanese descent, but he spent spent two years at Manzanar in solidarity with his friends.

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