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Beginning in summer 1942, the War Relocation Authority (WRA) began to release incarcerees and encouraged them to resettle in areas of the United States other than the West Coast.","extent":"2619W x 2005H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-7-8","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- \"Resettlement\"","id":"104"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Isoda, George"},{"namepart":"Kaneko, Masumi"}],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pcc","genre":"photograph","location":"Milwaukee, Wisconsin","creation":"1944","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Isoda, George \nKaneko, Masumi","download_large":"ddr-densho-7-8-mezzanine-08de9a6742-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-one-5-220","model":"entity","index":"13 2038/{'value': 2184, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-5-220/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-one-5-220/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-one-5/ddr-one-5-220-mezzanine-425ceb91c3-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-one-5/ddr-one-5-220-mezzanine-425ceb91c3-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from A.C. 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She concludes her letter by stating she feels that Dr. Koyama is fully loyal to the United States, has never done anything to harm his adopted country, and that she and her husband fully support the Koyama family.","extent":"1 photocopy: 8.50 W x 14 H","links_children":"ddr-one-5-220","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Goodenough, Eva"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Support from the non-Japanese American community","id":"80"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Goodenough, Eva"},{"namepart":"Koyama, Keizaburo"},{"namepart":"Ennis, Edward J."},{"namepart":"Koyama, Teru"}],"contributor":"Japanese American Museum of Oregon; Portland, Oregon","geography":[{"term":"Portland","id":"289"},{"term":"New Mexico","id":"502"},{"term":"Idaho","id":"491"}],"rights":"cc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Portland, Oregon","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"},{"term":"Santa Fe","id":"27"}],"creation":"8/8/1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Goodenough, Eva author Goodenough, Eva \nKoyama, Keizaburo \nEnnis, Edward J. \nKoyama, Teru","download_large":"ddr-one-5-220-mezzanine-425ceb91c3-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-48-21","model":"entity","index":"14 2039/{'value': 2184, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-21/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-48-21/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-48/ddr-csujad-48-21-mezzanine-d8412e99aa-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-48/ddr-csujad-48-21-mezzanine-d8412e99aa-a.jpg"},"title":"School assignment","description":"Assignment by Midori Kunitomi (first name missing due to torn upper right corner, determined via class roster) for Social Problems class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. 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Eventually he moved back to California to start a business with George Aratani.\r\n\r\nThis interview is part of the South Bay History Project created by the South Bay Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.","extent":"1:42:12","links_children":"ddr-densho-400-24","creators":[{"role":"narrator","namepart":"Michael Shigeru Yasutake"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Ron Ikejiri"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Military service -- Military Intelligence Service","id":"91"}],"format":"av","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Culver City, California","creation":"May 13, 2004","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Michael Shigeru Yasutake narrator \nRon Ikejiri interviewer","download_large":"ddr-densho-400-24-mezzanine-9f3304bdcb-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1010-4","model":"entity","index":"17 2042/{'value': 2184, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1010-4/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1010-4/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1010/denshovh-mkiyo-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1010/denshovh-mkiyo-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Kiyo Nikaido Morimoto Interview","description":"Nisei female. 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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 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These three men, as directors of the U.S. War Shipping Administration, supervise the cargo shipbuilding program in the United States which is already turning out more than two ships a day to speed war supplies to the Allied nations all over the world. A total of at least 8,000,000 gross tons of cargo space will be produced this year, with the shipbuilding industry merely beginning to get under way in its mass-production effort. Shown examining models of the vessels they are building are, left to right: Lewis W. Douglas, newly-appointed Deputy Administrator; Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, Deputy Administrator and Rear Admiral Emory S. 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(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)","extent":"01:33:33","links_children":"ddr-one-7-54","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":761,"namepart":"Yoji J. Matsushima"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Valerie Otani"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Ian McCluskey"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"nr_id":"88922/nr005rd1j","namepart":"Matsushima, Yoji Julius"}],"contributor":"Japanese American Museum of Oregon Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Portland, Oregon","creation":"November 15, 2013","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yoji J. Matsushima narrator \nValerie Otani interviewer \nIan McCluskey videographer Matsushima, Yoji Julius 88922nr005rd1j","download_large":"denshovh-myoji-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-3","model":"entity","index":"21 2046/{'value': 2184, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-bernest-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-bernest-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Ernest Besig Interview","description":"White male. Born in May 30, 1904, in Albany, New York. Founder and Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California from 1934 to 1971. Fought for civil rights throughout his career, and was involved in the General Strike in San Francisco, the McCarthy Era, and the Free Speech, civil rights, and anti-war movements. Represented Fred Korematsu in 1942 in his case against the United States government.
(This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. 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