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'Lest we forget': A look back at Sacramento's internment camp


The dark history of a short-lived World War II Japanese-American internment camp in Sacramento s Walerga Park
Author: John Bartell
Updated: 6:24 PM PDT May 23, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. In 1942 interstate 80 didn’t exist in Sacramento. Back then, the land below the concrete and asphalt would looked much different. In 1942 a dark time in American history was underway a dark time that Janice Yamaoka Luszczak says Sacramento would play a part in it. “There was a lot of prejudice building up over the years. Lots of discrimination,” says Luszczak.
Luszczak is historian and Sacramento Chapter president of the Japanese American Citizens League. She says, there’s little trace of it now but at the start of World War Two Walerga Park off Palm Avenue and I-80 was once a temporary detention center that housed nearly 5,000 Japanese-Americans. “Some people were thinking this was going to be like what the Germans were doing, and they we ....

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Sistahs on The Frontlines: Faye Wilson Kennedy – An Activist In Action — The Sacramento Observer


Faye Wilson Kennedy has been on the frontlines of local advocacy since her high school years. She says she enjoys learning from her younger peers and leaders.
No one has quite figured out yet how to add to the 24 hours in a single day, but veteran community activist Faye Wilson Kennedy makes the most of the time she’s been given.
She brokers deals with local restaurants to feed the unhoused and she takes on officials for allowing toxic chemicals to be routed through communities of color. She’s also a lead organizer with Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign; immediate past chair of the Sacramento Area Black Caucus (SABC); co-founder of the Southeast Village Neighborhood Association, a founding member of the Black Parallel School Board; and serves as president of the Colonial Heights Friends of the Library. In her “spare” time, Ms. Kennedy explores her creative side, while preserving Black culture, as part of the local Sisters Quilting Collective. ....

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