The complex history of Camp Algiers, site of new businesses

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The complex history of Camp Algiers, site of new businesses

In 2022, Tulane University professor Marilyn Miller participated in a ceremony for a traveling exhibit called “Ireichō” — the first-ever effort to document every person of Japanese descent sent to live in concentration camps around the country under orders from the federal government during World War II.  For the ceremony, Miller collected soil on a plot of land in Algiers scattered with old, fenced-off brick buildings along the Mississippi Rive…