United State's acceptance of Asian populations began with the end of World War II. These Nisei WACs posed for their graduation from the language school at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, prior to their departure to occupied Japan in late 1945. (Reproduced in, Roger Daniels, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1988. Plates following p. 174. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army.)

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