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Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-7)
doc Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-7)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-11)
doc Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-11)
This letter was sent to Minidoka concentration camp administrators who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-2)
doc Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-2)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-13)
doc Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-13)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-6)
doc Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-6)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-4)
doc Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-4)
This letter was sent to a Minidoka concentration camp administrator who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-9)
doc Letter from a Nisei woman (ddr-densho-155-9)
This letter was sent to a group of Minidoka concentration camp administrators who worked in the procurement office.
Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-10)
doc Letter from a Nisei man (ddr-densho-155-10)
This letter was sent to Minidoka concentration camp administrators who worked in the procurement office.
An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II (ddr-csujad-29-60)
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, …
An Oral History with Katsuma Mukaeda (ddr-csujad-29-56)
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 …
An Oral History with Lillie Y. McCabe, Part II (ddr-csujad-29-17)
av An Oral History with Lillie Y. McCabe, Part II (ddr-csujad-29-17)
An oral history with Lillie Y. McCabe, an incarceree at the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center and the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The interview covers the Anglo reverends and ministers who helped her while she was incarcerated at Amache, how …
An Oral History with Margaret Masuoka (ddr-csujad-29-25)
av An Oral History with Margaret Masuoka (ddr-csujad-29-25)
An interview with Margaret Masuoka, a volunteer at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), conducted for the Japanese American Project at California State Fullerton's Center for Oral and Public History. Specifically, this interview provides insight to Masuoka's personal history dealing with the prejudice that she and her family faced due their Japanese ancestry; her family's settlement …
Lillie McCabe (ddr-csujad-29-19)
img Lillie McCabe (ddr-csujad-29-19)
Photo of Lillie McCabe. Oral history audio and transcript are found in csufccop_jaoh_0030, csufccop_jaoh_0031, and csufccop_jaoh_0032. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1949_P03
An Oral History with Ikuko Amatatsu Watanabe (ddr-csujad-29-12)
av An Oral History with Ikuko Amatatsu Watanabe (ddr-csujad-29-12)
Nisei district manager of an educational corporation discusses samurai ancestry; childhood on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and makeup of Bainbridge Japanese community; incarceration at the Manzanar camp, California, including circumstances as to why Bainbridge Islanders were transferred to the Minidoka camp in Idaho; wartime resettlement to Chicago; and postwar years in California, with particular attention to discriminatory …
Cooperative Colonization (ddr-sbbt-2-27)
doc Cooperative Colonization (ddr-sbbt-2-27)
A proposal to incentivize incarcerees to leave the concentration camps by investing in land, farming equipment, and other materials for Japanese Americans to establish "colonies in fertile land suitable for agriculture."
An Oral History with Seiko Ishida (ddr-csujad-29-11)
av An Oral History with Seiko Ishida (ddr-csujad-29-11)
Retired Kibei teacher recounts samurai parents' background and their immigration to Seattle, Washington; socioeconomic composition of Seattle's Japanese community; earlier teacher training; prewar stays in Japan as a child and as a tutor in a missionary family; experiences as a teacher in the wartime resettlement in New York; and postwar return to Los Angeles. This oral …
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