Johanna Miller Lewis
Southern Exposure Contributor
Johanna Miller Lewis is Professor of History and Coordinator of Public History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has won numerous awards for exhibits that bring the history of civil rights to the general public. (2005)
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Articles by Johanna Miller Lewis
August 1, 2005 -
When Japanese Americans were interned during World War II, the government brought some of them from the West Coast to distant Arkansas. They found themselves surrounded by barbed wire—and the Jim Crow South.