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October 1, 1987

“A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution” opens at the National Museum of American History. The exhibition is designed to focus attention on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and explores a period when racial prejudice and fear upset the balance between the rights of citizens and the power of the state and led to the internment of some 120,000 Japanese Americans for much of World War II. The exhibition also includes a section on the men in the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-Japanese American unit of the United States Army.

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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.