Norman Y. Mineta

Norman Y. Mineta is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum and the Secretary of Transportation under George W. Bush and the Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton. He and his family were incarcerated at a concentration camp in Heart Mountain, Wyoming

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I Was Detained in a U.S. Internment Camp. Here’s Why America’s Current Tragedies Have the Same Causes

Mineta was a U.S. Representative for California from 1975 to 1995, U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2000 to 2001 and U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 2001 to 2006.In 1942, as a 10-year-old boy in San...

By Norman Y. Mineta

I Was Imprisoned in a U.S. Internment Camp. Bigotry Put Me There.

'Fear and bigotry won’t make the U.S. safer'

By Norman Y. Mineta and Ann Burroughs
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