“During that first summer and fall of sandy congestion and wind-blown boredom, the bitterness accumulated, the rage festered in hundreds of tarpapered cubicles like ours. Looking back, what they now call the December Riot seems to have been inevitable.”
From Farwell to Manzanar by by Jeanne Wakatsuki Housto and James D. Houston
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