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Handwritten notes of speech (ddr-densho-102-28)
These notes were for a speech given to a businessmen's group in Kentucky.
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Roger Shimomura Interview Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-142-40)
Experiencing discrimination at a job interview for Murray State University, Kentucky
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Kara Kondo Interview Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-139-43)
Living and working in Louisville, Kentucky before returning to Yakima, Washington
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Kara Kondo Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-139-38)
Moving to Kentucky, and giving a speech on incarceration to a businessman's group there
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Group in costume for stageplay "An Old Kentucky Garden" (ddr-ajah-4-49)
Caption below photo: Cast members from "An Old Kentucky Garden" stageplay at JME Alameda, CA March 1937
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Program for "An Old Kentucky Garden" (ddr-ajah-4-56)
Seventh Benefit Entertainment of the Young Peoples Epworth League. Includes ads for local businesses,
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Kara Kondo Interview Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-139-40)
Working in Louisville, Kentucky; husband encounters discrimination when trying to enlist in the Army Air Corps
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Couple posing in costumes (ddr-ajah-4-51)
Caption below photo: Munch Mizokuchi, as Phillip, and Etsu Yoshida, as Adaliza, are actors in "An Old Kentucky Garden," a stageplay at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Alameda, CA. March 1937
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Couple posing in costumes (ddr-ajah-4-53)
Caption below photo: Etsu Yoshida, as Adaliza, and Leroy Kajiwara, as Colonel Staunton, are two of the actors in the stageplay of "An Old Kentucky Garden" at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Alameda, CA. March 1937
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Couple posing in costumes (ddr-ajah-4-52)
Caption below photo: Tim Yamasaki, as Stephen Foster and Etsu Yoshida, as Adaliza, are actors from "An Old Kentucky Garden," a stageplay at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Alameda, CA. The show was directed by Ruby Yoshino and Albert Torio. March 1937
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Three women in costumes (ddr-ajah-4-54)
Caption below photo: Kiyo Date (left), as Elmino, Etsu Yoshida, as Adaliza, and Shinayo Kikuchi sing in "An Old Kentucky Garden", a stageplay at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Alameda, CA. The show was directed by Ruby Yoshino and Alber Torio. March 1937
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Woman posing in costume (ddr-ajah-4-50)
Photo signed on front: Sincerely, Shinayo "32". Caption below photo: Shinayo Kikuchi sings in the choral group in the stageplay of "An Old Kentucky Garden," at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South i Alameda, CA. The show was directed by Ruby Yoshino and Albert Torio. March 1937
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Man posing in costume (ddr-ajah-4-55)
Caption below photo: Min Yoshida, playing the role of Majundahr, the Hindu magician, is one of the actors in the stageplay of "An Old Kentucky Garden," at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Alameda, CA. The show was directed by Ruby Yoshino and Albert Torio. March 1937
Narrator Lloyd K. Wake
Nisei male. Born January 12, 1922, in Reedley, California. Grew up in Reedley, where parents ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp in 1943 to attend Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and entered the ministry. After the war, lived in San Francisco, California, and …
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Lloyd K. Wake Interview (ddr-densho-1000-330)
Nisei male. Born January 12, 1922, in Reedley, California. Grew up in Reedley, where parents ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp in 1943 to attend Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and entered the ministry. After the war, lived in San Francisco, California, and …
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Letter from Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, to Nurse Mary F. Clark, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, February 27, 1942 (ddr-csujad-55-1334)
Correspondence from Thomas Parran to Mary Clark regarding Clarks travel authorization from Lexington, Kentucky to Fort Missoula, Montana. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947" page 5. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1336
Narrator Kara Kondo
Nisei female. Born May 24, 1916, in the Yakima valley, Washington, and spent childhood in Wapato, Washington. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and then to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Was on the staff of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel. Left camp for Chicago, …
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Kara Kondo Interview (ddr-densho-1000-139)
Nisei female. Born May 24, 1916, in the Yakima valley, Washington, and spent childhood in Wapato, Washington. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and then to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Was on the staff of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel. Left camp for Chicago, …
Narrator George Yoshida
Nisei male. Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the "Music Makers," …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 18 (May 3, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-18)
Select article titles: "Congressional hearings end on use of temporary Japanese farm labor" (p. 1); "Congressmen to support JACL Nat'l TV protest" (p. 1); "Active Chicagoan Mike Hagiwara dies unexpectedly" (p. 1); "Denver TV stations promis no showing of anti-Nisei films" (p. 1); "Parents of grade school pupils urged to protest use of 'Firelight Reader'" (p. …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 44, No. 19 (May 10, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-19)
Select article titles: "Continuation of Japanese Farm Labor Held Likely by Hillings" (p. 1); "San Diegans urge elimination of Fuzz Young Story" (p. 1); "'Golden Reel' prize awarded to Nisei" (p. 1); "Against farm labor program but for higher Japan quota" (p. 1); "Seven months remain for 'illegally admitted' aliens in U.S. to change status to …
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George Yoshida Interview (ddr-densho-1000-132)
Nisei male. Born April 9, 1922, in Seattle, Washington. Parents immigrated from Japan in the early 1900s. Attended Bailey Gatzert Elementary School and Washington Middle School in Seattle before his family moved to East Los Angeles in 1936. Incarcerated in Poston Detention Camp #1, Arizona, in April 1942. While in camp, helped organize the "Music Makers," …