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.
On this day
December 6
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.)