Race and racism

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doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Lloyd Marti (ddr-densho-468-186)

Thank you letter for hitchhiking with appeal for assistance. Ishikawa mentions being the assistant director for one of the city's playgrounds.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-186/

doc Draft: "He was bewildered" (ddr-densho-468-162)

Handwritten poetry draft reflecting on anti-Japanese slur

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-162/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Ray McConnell (ddr-densho-468-194)

Thank you and correction for article in Lincoln Journal on swimming pool integration efforts

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-194/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Rev. Gerald Kennedy (ddr-densho-468-196)

Letter describing situation with municipal swimming pool segregation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-196/

doc Memoir: "A Misspent Life" (ddr-densho-468-95)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-95/

doc Draft: "Race 4 in Japan" (ddr-densho-468-153)

Essay on race, Japanese ethnicity, and visit to pre-war Japan

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-153/

doc Testimony before the Lincoln City Council (ddr-densho-468-193)

Testimony given in protest of segregation of municipal swimming pool

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-193/

doc Story outline and short story: John Citizen Junior (ddr-densho-468-66)

Typed outline and draft of story set in World War II

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-66/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Rev. Arthur L. Miller (ddr-densho-468-195)

Letter describing situation with municipal swimming pool segregation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-195/

doc Lincoln Star: "Muny Pool Policy On Negroes Hit" (ddr-densho-468-198)

Newspaper article describing efforts by Ishikawa (misidentified as Filipino) et al to desegregate Lincoln, NE, municipal swimming pool

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-198/

doc A Myopic Account of a Relocated Life during the Second World War (ddr-densho-468-97)

Personal recollections of life in an assembly center and relocation camp for Japanese descendants and various digressions

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-97/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to City Council President (ddr-densho-468-187)

Letter protesting segregation of Lincoln, Nebraska, municipal swimming pool

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-187/

doc Letter from Lloyd Marti to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-199)

Letter of confirmation that Mayor Marti received Ishikawa's letter regarding the integration of the municipal swimming pool.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-199/

doc Minnity (ddr-densho-468-232)

Handwritten draft of thoughts on race, racism, and identity

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-232/

doc Draft: "more re: NBC special" (ddr-densho-468-156)

Essay with thoughts on NBC special, civil disobedience of Jane Fonda and Ramsay Clark, and racial element of activism/bigotry with handwritten notes on reverse.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-156/

doc Daily Nebraskan: "Dean Thompson Offers No Comment Regarding Big Six Race Controversy" (ddr-densho-468-183)

Article regarding integration of Big Six athletics

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-183/

doc Draft essay: "It is obvious that mr. w. h. anderson is neither" (ddr-densho-468-154)

Reflection on racism, anti-Japanese sentiment, Japan's military government, and Japanese-American identity.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-154/

doc Swimming pool test (ddr-densho-468-192)

Description of attempt for a mixed race group to access municipal swimming pool.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-192/

doc Daily Nebraskan: "Dean Thompson Expresses Views on Racial Dispute in Open Letter" (ddr-densho-468-184)

Article responding to open letter in Daily Nebraskan article from April 23, 1946

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-184/

doc Daily Nebraskan: "Students Criticize Thompson's Letter" (ddr-densho-468-185)

Article responding to Dean Thompson's letter on April 25, 1946. Ishikawa's response notes that, while legislation cannot eradicate prejudice, it can prevent the manifestations of prejudice.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-185/

doc Notes for didactic novel "Johnny Obata" (ddr-densho-468-76)

Sketches of ideas for novel involving Johnny Obata character from ddr-densho-468-75. Author comments on his relationship to Nisei group and expresses concern for Nisei individuals (but not the group as a whole).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-76/

doc Interview with Zora Tennant and Jimmy Lewis (ddr-densho-468-190)

Description of interview [note: not a transcript] regarding Ishikawa's efforts to desegregate municipal swimming pool

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-190/

doc Interview with Homer Kyle (ddr-densho-468-191)

Description of interview [note: not a transcript] regarding Ishikawa's efforts to desegregate municipal swimming pool, including discussion of a legal challenge. Second note describes Kyle's follow-up on July 22, 1946

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-191/

doc A.D. 1977: Japanese Christians in America: The Church That Survives Hate (ddr-densho-446-394)

Article in the July/August 1977 issue of A.D. 1977 on the experience of Japanese Christians in America through the end of WWII.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-394/

doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Shirley (ddr-densho-468-189)

Letter explaining resignation in protest of swimming pool segregation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-189/