UC Berkeley students now in their eighties and nineties finally received the campus degrees they had been working toward nearly seven decades ago, when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps in the midst of World War II.
See Full Story: http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/08_honorarydegrees.shtml
Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations
I believe that the reason why the Japanese-americans were put in concentrational camp! It wasn't because we believe they might be spys! It was because were were predjudice! There were German and Italian descent! There were paper works knowing that they were Germans and Itailan immigrants!
Van2Dan 1 year ago
They did the same in 1994, A University Medalist of Japanese descent was finally given the medal.. Berkeley is a cool university.
noformstyle 2 years ago