Overlooked No More: Ralph Lazo, Who Voluntarily Lived in an Internment Camp

In 1942, a Mexican-American high school student in Los Angeles pretended to be Japanese-American and voluntarily lived in an internment camp so he could be with his friends. That experience defined how he lived the rest of his life.


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Overlooked No More: Ralph Lazo, Who Voluntarily Lived in an Internment Camp
About 115,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were incarcerated after Pearl Harbor, and Lazo, who was Mexican-American, joined them in a bold act of solidarity.