Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/ralph-lazo/ Our Thing Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:20:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/ralph-lazo/ 144 144 The Little-Known Story of a Mexican-American Teenager Who Lived in a Japanese Internment Camp https://remezcla.com/features/film/john-esaki-stand-up-for-justice-ralph-lazo-story/ Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:34:38 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=242074 In one of the most shameful chapters of this country’s history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an Executive Order that forced thousands of Japanese and their American-born children into internment camps in 1942 as retaliation for Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. At the time, 17-year-old Mexican-American student, Ralph Lazo, was attending Belmont High School, located

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]]> Former WWII Era Internment Camp Preserved As Manzanar National Historic Site Pictures of people who were incarcerated at Manzanar War Relocation Center are displayed alongside family tags at Manzanar National Historic Site on December 9, 2015 near Independence, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images