Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.
Keeper of the Concentration Camps Dillon S. Myer and American Racism
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- Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center on the subject of intolerance in the United States
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