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George Takei on being sent to an internment camp, Star Trek and hiding his sexuality.

Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

CHAPTER

Is This Where the Horse Is?

On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned in 10 prison camps. "For my parents, it was a degrading, humiliating, painful experience taking their young children into that horse stall," she says. She recalls being put on a train with her family for two days before they were taken to an Arkansas prison camp parallel to the railroad track.

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