Myer was responsible for planning and carrying out official government policies aimed at assimilating Japanese Americans and Native Americans into American society.
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Among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942. Fixico and Hayashi will sign their books after the lecture. The experience of immigrants and assimilation efforts against non-Caucasian people. Hayashi, an expert on Japanese American history and the question of assimilation, will discuss the policies authored and implemented by Myers and the WRA during World War II and their impact on Japanese Americans. The WRA was responsible for overseeing the unconstitutional removal, incarceration, and resettlement of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during and after the war.