This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

When Warren for a Tani was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s, he sometimes heard his parents

refer to a place they once spent time, a place they called camp. You know camp reference for me was

summer camp or the Y camp. So what is this camp thing they keep talking about?

The fact that it's brought up here and there,

but not elaborated on, you can't help but wonder

there must be much more to the story.

Warren was right. There was a lot more to the story. Warren was right. There was a lot more to the story.

Producer Emmett Fitzgerald.

During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated Warren Furrattani's parents,

along with over 110,000 other Japanese Americans in remote detention centers.

When they talked about camp, that's what they meant.

In college in the 1960s, Warren got involved in the civil rights movement and the Asian American movement.

And as he got more politically active, he started to research his people's history.

He wanted to find out what had happened to his parents and

other Japanese Americans during the war. One day he was at a Vietnam war

protest with his friend Victor Shabbata,

and they started talking about how they wanted

to organize a march for the Asian American community.

But they didn't know where to go.

And Victor and I said, well, there's this camps

that our parents were.

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