Museum names plaza after 1st Japanese American member of Cabinet

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles has named its historic plaza after the first Asian American appointed to a Presidential Cabinet.Commemorating the late Secretary Norman Mineta, the museum in Little Tokyo named the plaza "Norman Y. Mineta Democracy Plaza" and held a ceremony on Friday attended by his relatives, government officials and others.Located in front of the museum, the plaza was once a site on which Americans of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from the area and incarcerated in camps for the duration of World War II."The plaza is hallowed ground, one of th…READ FULL ARTICLE