WJON — St. Cloud State University is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Once a month SCSU Archivist Tom Stemen comes on the News @ Noon Show to talk about the history of the campus. Tuesday he focused on minorities.
He says during World War II St. Cloud State admitted six Japanese-American students.
“There were five women and one gentleman who were here between 1942 and 1947. Four of them graduated. They were let out of internment camps in the western United States to complete their education here.”
Steman says the United States allowed students to leave the camps under certain conditions.
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