UC to award honorary degrees to interned Japanese American students

latimes.com
Jul. 17, 2009
Grace Obata Amemiya is one of about 700 who were forced to leave school and relocate to camps during WWII. Now, her dream of holding a diploma from UC Berkeley has come true. Grace Obata Amemiya was a pre-nursing student at UC Berkeley in 1942 when she, her family and 120,000 other Japanese...
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