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Certificate of Commendation to William Minoru Hohri (ddr-csujad-24-47)
Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, February 17, 1988 (ddr-csujad-24-16)
Letter from Clifford I. Uyeda to Aiko HerzigYoshinaga, January 11, 1988 (ddr-csujad-24-38)
Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, February 2, 1993 (ddr-csujad-24-6)
Karl Akiya shows a camp poster from Topaz incarceration camp calling for discussion of free speech (ddr-csujad-52-33)
Gordon Hirabayashi talks press before the first day of trial against the U.S. government (ddr-csujad-52-39)
Hotoru Matsudaira, Mako Nakagawa, and Masao Takahashi, who testified at a hearing before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (ddr-csujad-52-32)
Sumi Seki , 63, of Long Beach, has become an activist concerning the World War II internment and human rights (ddr-csujad-52-40)
Hannah Tomiko Holmes speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles about a lawsuit seeking reparations (ddr-csujad-52-34)
An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II (ddr-csujad-29-60)
Frank Emi (ddr-csujad-29-170)
An Oral History with Katsuma Mukaeda (ddr-csujad-29-56)
[Portrait of Elaine Black Yoneda] (ddr-csujad-29-115)
[Photograph of President Ronald Reagan signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 on August 10, 1988] (ddr-csujad-29-247)
Oral history with Frank Emi, Art Emi, and James Omura (ddr-csujad-29-390)
An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part I (ddr-csujad-29-59)
Oral history with Frank Emi (ddr-csujad-29-389)
Program for a Day of Remembrance event (February 16, 1991) (ddr-janm-4-24)
NCRR (National Coalation for Redress/Reparations) pamphlet (ddr-janm-4-8)
NCRR (National Coalation for Redress/Reparations) pamphlet (ddr-janm-4-39)
Draft letter by the NCRR (ddr-janm-4-16)
Poster for a Day of Remembrance event (February 16, 1991) (ddr-janm-4-25)
Letter from Larry Tajiri to Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-430)
Letter from Larry Tajiri to Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-439)
Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Zora Tennant (ddr-densho-468-188)

609 items

doc Certificate of Commendation to William Minoru Hohri (ddr-csujad-24-47)

William Minoru Hohri was honored by the Manzanar Committee for his leadership of the class action lawsuit Hohri v. U.S., a civil suit filed against the U.S. government demanding compensation for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_02_006

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-47/

doc Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, February 17, 1988 (ddr-csujad-24-16)

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin about redress activists Aiko and Jack Herzig. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_01_016

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-16/

doc Letter from Clifford I. Uyeda to Aiko HerzigYoshinaga, January 11, 1988 (ddr-csujad-24-38)

A passionate letter from Clifford Uyeda to Aiko HerzigYoshinaga about the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) refusing to take a position on people who were arrested because of an allegation that they were involved with the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Uyeda argues that these people are being targeted for incarceration merely because of their ethnicity and that …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-38/

doc Letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin, February 2, 1993 (ddr-csujad-24-6)

A letter from Michi Weglyn to Frank Chin about mutual friends and topics of shared interest. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_01_006

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-6/

img Karl Akiya shows a camp poster from Topaz incarceration camp calling for discussion of free speech (ddr-csujad-52-33)

Caption below image reads, "CONCERNED JAPANESE UNITE--Karl Akiya, a former Japanese American inmate of the Topaz, Utah internment camp, shows a camp poster calling for public discussions of free speech during a day of remembrance program at the Japanese Christian Church Saturday in New York. Approximately 300 former inmates of the camp attended the gathering which …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-33/

img Gordon Hirabayashi talks press before the first day of trial against the U.S. government (ddr-csujad-52-39)

Caption under image reads, "HEADING FOR COURT--Gordon Hirabayashi talks to reporters Monday on his way to the Federal Courthouse in Seattle for the first day of a trial in which he seeks to prove the U.S. government suppressed, destroyed and altered evidence attesting to the loyalty of Japanese-Americans in order to justify their wartime internment." See …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-39/

Hotoru Matsudaira, Mako Nakagawa, and Masao Takahashi, who testified at a hearing before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (ddr-csujad-52-32)

img Hotoru Matsudaira, Mako Nakagawa, and Masao Takahashi, who testified at a hearing before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (ddr-csujad-52-32)

Caption below image reads, "NO VACATION--Hotoru Matsudaira, right, a feisty 79-year-old grandmother, told a federal commission Thursday that the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was anything but a 'three-year vacation,' as described by Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, R-Calif. 'He is a Canadian and he lived in the East all during the war. He is …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-32/

img Sumi Seki , 63, of Long Beach, has become an activist concerning the World War II internment and human rights (ddr-csujad-52-40)

A woman, wearing a white shirt and floral print skirt, poses in front of pottery and furniture. Two quotes attached to image read, "Sumi Seki, interred in Jerome Ark. during WWII as a 'precaution' Actually a racist move by our government" and "These days Sumi Seki, 63, of Long Beach, has become an activist concerning the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-40/

img Hannah Tomiko Holmes speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles about a lawsuit seeking reparations (ddr-csujad-52-34)

Caption next to image reads, "LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST U.S.--Hannah Tomiko Holmes, a Japanese-American who was interned at Manzanar, speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles Wednesday during which it was announced that a lawsuit had been filed against the United States government by a group of Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II. The …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-34/

vh An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II (ddr-csujad-29-60)

An oral history with Sumiye Takeno, a current resident of Denver, Colorado. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The purpose of this interview was to gather information regarding Takeno's incarceration and resettlement experience during World War II. Specifically, the interview covers her childhood in Florin, California, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-60/

img Frank Emi (ddr-csujad-29-170)

Photograph of Frank S. Emi. Oral history with Frank Emi, 1993-02-20, COPH, Japanese American Collection. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P111

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-170/

vh An Oral History with Katsuma Mukaeda (ddr-csujad-29-56)

Chairman of Japanese American Cultural Center and former president of Japanese Chamber of Commerce recounts conditions of prewar Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, its wartime conversion into a black community, postwar reestablishment as a Japanese-American cultural and commercial center. Includes comments on discriminatory legislation, prewar Japan-American relations. World War II removal and incarceration, camp conditions, wartime repatriation …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-56/

img [Portrait of Elaine Black Yoneda] (ddr-csujad-29-115)

Portrait of Elaine Black Yoneda. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P035

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-115/

img [Photograph of President Ronald Reagan signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 on August 10, 1988] (ddr-csujad-29-247)

Photograph of President Ronald Reagan signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 on August 10, 1988 with Congressmen and women looking on. From left to right: Norman Mineta, Pat Saiki, Pete Wilson, Don Young, Ronald Reagan, Bob Matsui, Bill Lowery, Harry Kajihara. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: P190

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-247/

av Oral history with Frank Emi, Art Emi, and James Omura (ddr-csujad-29-390)

An oral interview with Frank Emi, Art Emi, and James Omura. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0960. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2331.2_T01

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-390/

vh An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part I (ddr-csujad-29-59)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-59/

av Oral history with Frank Emi (ddr-csujad-29-389)

An oral interview with Frank Emi, a civil rights activist and leading figure of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0958. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2331.1_T01

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-389/

doc Program for a Day of Remembrance event (February 16, 1991) (ddr-janm-4-24)

Day of Remembrance- Remembrance in Action: Continuing Our Fight For Civil Rights event program sponsored by the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (February 16, 1991).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-4-24/

doc NCRR (National Coalation for Redress/Reparations) pamphlet (ddr-janm-4-8)

NCRR (National Coalation for Redress/Reparations) brief history and membership sign-up pamphlet.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-4-8/

doc NCRR (National Coalation for Redress/Reparations) pamphlet (ddr-janm-4-39)

NCRR (National Coalation for Redress/Reparations) brief history and membership sign-up pamphlet.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-4-39/

doc Draft letter by the NCRR (ddr-janm-4-16)

Four-paged draft letter by the NCRR. There is a place at the end for a signature but it is not signed.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-4-16/

doc Poster for a Day of Remembrance event (February 16, 1991) (ddr-janm-4-25)

Two identical posters informing the public about a Day of Remembrance- Remembrance In Action: Continuing Our Fight For Civil Rights event (February 16, 1991).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-janm-4-25/

doc Letter from Larry Tajiri to Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-430)

Larry Tajiri discusses his travels to Camp Shelby, New Orleans, and Jerome concentration camp. He is disturbed by "the sight of Jim Crow cars and the white-colored segretation." Also sends a list of books he would like to receive from the Common Council.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-338-430/

doc Letter from Larry Tajiri to Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground (ddr-densho-338-439)

Larry Tajiri responding to Margaret Anderson's proposal to write a new piece on the Japanese American situation at the end of 1943. He also discusses the work of Elmer R. Smith and Barron B. Beshoar.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-338-439/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Zora Tennant (ddr-densho-468-188)

Letter of resignation in protest of swimming pool segregation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-188/