December 6

December 6, 1942 resistance

Manzanar Uprising

Tensions over camp conditions and suspected informants erupted into mass protest at Manzanar; military police fired into the crowd, killing two young men, James Ito and Jim Kanagawa, and wounding others.

Content note: violence

December 6, 2008 achievement

Joseph Cao Elected to Congress

Anh 'Joseph' Cao, who fled Vietnam as a child after the fall of Saigon, was elected in Louisiana as the first Vietnamese American member of Congress. (Shares Dec 6 with the 1942 Manzanar Uprising.)