Community activities
Japanese Americans of the pre-World War II era, urban and rural dwellers alike, lived in tight-knit communities bound together by a wide variety of shared associations and institutions. In an era marked by pronounced anti-Asian racism, Japanese Americans in cities tended to live in segregated ghettoes. While discrimination was the reason for isolated Japanese American neighborhoods, the well-organized and tight-knit community provided a rich social and cultural foundation for the Japanese immigrants and their children.
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![Audience shot of the night's entertainment (ddr-jamsj-1-497)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/18/4e/184e6ab2497b007fc603c50149b0ba02.jpg)
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Audience shot of the night's entertainment (ddr-jamsj-1-497)
Dinner reception for the Ninth Annual California Landscape Gardeners Convention held at Cabana Hotel.
![Attendants of the 20th Anniversary (ddr-jamsj-1-623)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/a8/d8/a8d8b1c41752db4c058ce9cdfe0ee1a4.jpg)
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Attendants of the 20th Anniversary (ddr-jamsj-1-623)
The 20th Anniversary Commemoration-Installation Dinner at Hyatt House.
![Men shaking hands (ddr-jamsj-1-632)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/75/e1/75e1197022822fda1512fec91e9842eb.jpg)
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Men shaking hands (ddr-jamsj-1-632)
The 20th Anniversary Commemoration-Installation Dinner at Hyatt House.
![Band playing at convention reception (ddr-jamsj-1-480)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/09/cb/09cb894b7acafd380b4904a8d884893f.jpg)
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Band playing at convention reception (ddr-jamsj-1-480)
Dinner reception for the Ninth Annual California Landscape Gardeners Convention held at Cabana Hotel.
![Henry Morita, First President Garden City Gardeners' Club 1949-1950 (ddr-jamsj-1-206)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/27/76/2776fe070942267190f6095f3f78bcc1.jpg)
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Henry Morita, First President Garden City Gardeners' Club 1949-1950 (ddr-jamsj-1-206)
Outside Home. President of Club 1949-1950
![Speech (ddr-jamsj-1-624)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/28/15/28153d2622baaab36d2c1dd694decb00.jpg)
![Lucheon (ddr-jamsj-1-195)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/23/95/239591f7ffbfd5f966a6cb596628d2d8.jpg)
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Lucheon (ddr-jamsj-1-195)
Seventh Annual Landscape Gardener's Convention held in Southern California.
![Please Drop the Lifesaver (ddr-jamsj-1-284)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/0d/62/0d6296a67d43efe3a48de9c650e43092.jpg)
![Japanese American and white men and boys at St. Marks church (ddr-densho-259-197)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/e7/53/e753feebe2bd37f89f5162c26d824bf0.jpg)
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Japanese American and white men and boys at St. Marks church (ddr-densho-259-197)
Caption by Homer Yasui: "St. Marks Church in Hood River, showing [Masuo Yasui], several Issei men, a Caucasian minister, and remarkably, a Japanese minister not Isaac Inouye. St. Marks was either a Catholic or Episcopalian church--or maybe it was a Lutheran church. In any event, the two clerics are wearing their collars backwards, as Catholic and …
![Nisei and Issei woman in California (ddr-densho-259-53)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/11/c0/11c0d89b825079cb7a090c467c9dd20e.jpg)
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Nisei and Issei woman in California (ddr-densho-259-53)
Caption by Yuka Yasui: "Michi with [Shidzuyo Yasui]'s friend from Okayama-ken [Okayama prefecture, Japan]."
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"Gathering of Hood River Nikkei" (ddr-densho-259-33)
Group photograph of Nikkei living in Hood River, Oregon.