Sam Mihara featured in cover story for Humanities magazine

Powell Tribune

During Sam Mihara's first talk about the Japanese American incarceration to a group of Justice Department lawyers, only three had heard of Fred Korematsu, the civil rights icon who unsuccessfully challenged his incarceration to the Supreme Court in 1944. 

That began a second career for Mihara, a former Boeing Co. rocket scientist who had been incarcerated as a child in the concentration camp for Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain. He realized most Americans knew little about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II that imprisoned 125,000 people without trial.

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