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Lincoln instructor chosen for Japanese American Incarceration workshop

A Lincoln Public Schools social research instructor has been accepted to take part in a workshop this summer time sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities in Wyoming. 

Lindsey Herting, a instructor at Lincoln High School, will spend six days at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, studying in regards to the situations that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans following the 1941 assault on Pearl Harbor.







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Herting is certainly one of 72 educators chosen by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation from a bunch of almost 300 candidates and can obtain a $1,300 stipend to cowl the price of journey and lodging. 

The Heart Mountain Wyoming and the Japanese American Incarceration workshop may even train educators in regards to the prejudice immigrants face, the Japanese expertise in America and the trauma that many members of the households of these incarcerated nonetheless endure at the moment.

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