80 years later, Japanese internment camp still an unknown part of Santa Fe history

Some 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. Early in 1942, the U.S. Department of Justice expanded a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Santa Fe, N.M., into one such holding center.

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