Poetry

doc Booklet (ddr-densho-453-4)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-453-4/

doc WCCA Assembly Center 1942 North Portland, Ore. Poetry Journal No. 1 (ddr-densho-453-3)

Handwritten on Holland Linen notebook. Additional title in Japanese

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doc Senryu Poem Collection 1944 (ddr-densho-453-2)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-453-2/

doc WCCA Assembly Center 1942 North Portland, Ore. Poetry Journal No. 2 (ddr-densho-453-1)

Handwritten on Holland Linen notebook

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-453-1/

doc Poem (ddr-densho-179-220)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-179-220/

doc Poem (ddr-densho-179-221)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 3 (January 20, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-3)

Selected article titles: "JACL Policy on Aging Adopted by White House Conference: Issei Background Cited as Factor" (p. 1), "Advocates of Financing Program for Age Through Social Security in Huge Majority" (p. 1), "Issei Poem Read Before Emperor" (p. 3), and "Hope Someday 'Most Successful Lobbyist in Washington' Will Be Decorated for His Crusade to Aid …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-3/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 25 (December 22, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-51)

Special holiday issue organized into sections A 1-24, B 1-16, and C 1-4. Selected article titles: "'Evacuation' JACL Statement and Command Decision" (pp. A-1, A-3-A-7), "Nisei Actors Come of Age" (p. A-8), "Chronology of War Relocation Authority Activities" (pp. A-22-A-23), and "JACL vs. Lechner" (pp. B-15-B-16). The holiday issue included advertisements bought by JACL members and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-51/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 104, No. 7 (February 20, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-7)

Selected article titles: "'Hate Crimes': Fight Goes on in Congress, on Streets" (pp. 1-2, 4-5), "Hongo Offers a Poet's View of JA Experience" (pp. 1, 8), "JACL's Future Function" (p. 4), and "Could Matsui Win the '88 Senate Race?" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-59-7/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 75, No. 5 (August 4, 1972) (ddr-pc-44-30)

Selected article titles: "Hoover Opposition to Evacuation Told in His Last Article" (p.1), "Butterick to Rid Derogatory Label" (p.1), "Nixon-Tanaka Two-Day Summit in Hawaii Set" (p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-44-30/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 116, No. 16 (April 23, 1993) (ddr-pc-65-16)

Select article titles: "Hate crimes increase in Los Angeles County" (p. 1); JACL approves of verdicts in Rodney King trial" (p. 1); "Literary history offers Nisei poets from WWII camps" (p. 4); "Book on crime in Japan, U.S." (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-65-16/

img Tule Lake scrapbook (ddr-csujad-26-53)

Scrapbook created in Tule Lake camp by Japanese American students. Contents include drawings, art, holiday greeting cards prints, poetry and signatures of student groups. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: mei_03_20_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-53/

img Tule Lake scrapbook illustrated page (ddr-csujad-26-64)

Scrapbook page features a pastel drawing of women showering and in various states of undress in camp barracks. Illustration is accompanied by a poem "Barrack room ballads" about the lack of both privacy and comfort of women using camp barracks showers and toilets. Tule Lake scrapbook (ucsb_mei_0053), page 31. See this object in the California State …

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doc Scatterbrain masterpieces: short stories, poetry, jokes, cartoons, carnival editions (ddr-csujad-26-45)

Student created magazine consisting of several drawings, poems, and short stories including: "Spectacular flight" by Mary Furuta, "Nisei learns to smile again" by Teiko Hamaguchi, "Small but solid" by Sam Himoto, "Terrific teens" by Rose Hiraoka, "Too young" by Toshi Iwasaki, "Glamour ain't hay" by Helen Kanemasu, "Alone with brother" by Natalie Nakamura, "17 a boy" …

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doc Wolf song (ddr-csujad-48-74)

Lyrics from the poem , titled: "The Wolf Song." Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9074. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ecm_wells_0074

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doc Fresno West Side (ddr-csujad-8-13)

Oral history interview with Mr. Nori Masuda, Mrs. Masako Inada, Mrs. Fumi Nakajima, and Mrs. Setsu Hirasuna. Information on the oral history project is found in: csuf_stp_0012A; Glossary in: csuf_stp_0014. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: FCPL Fresno West Side

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-8-13/

doc Poem written in camp (ddr-densho-126-1)

Jim Yoshihara wrote the poem "Damned Fence" while incarcerated at Minidoka.

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doc "Drawing the Line" for Yosh Kuromiya (ddr-densho-122-557)

Typed poem by Lawson Fusao Inada, signed on last page. Poem was later published in 1997 in Inada's collection "Drawing the Line" published by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, in 1997.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-557/

doc Gidra, Vol. II, No. 2 (February 1970) (ddr-densho-297-11)

Selected article titles: "Ford Foundation" (p. 2), "Community Dat at U.C.L.A." (p. 2), "The March" (p. 5), "'White Male Qualities!' Oriental Males Reply" (p. 9).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-11/

doc Gidra, Vol. I, No. 9 (December 1969) (ddr-densho-297-9)

Selected article titles: "Asian Americans to March for Peace" (p. 2), "U.S. to Return to Okinawa" (p. 2), "Arm Busted at UCLA" (p. 3), "Hi Pot Victory!" (p. 3), "A Requiem for O.C." (p. 7), "The Conscientious Objector" (p. 11), "Change the Draft" (p. 11).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-9/

doc Gidra, Vol. II, No. 4 (April 1970) (ddr-densho-297-13)

Selected article titles: "ARM and Order" (p. 2), "Peace, or Else" (p. 3). "Gidra Banned from UCLA" (p. 4), "Revolution at Isla Vista" (p. 5), "The Gidra Story" (p. 9), "Yellow Brotherhood" (p. 18), "An Analysis of and Alternatives to Nixon's Welfare Proposals" (p. 19), "Legal Self Defense" (p. 23).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-13/

doc Gidra, Vol. I, No. 7 (October 1969) (ddr-densho-297-7)

Selected article titles: "Issei Centennial" (p. 2), "Introspect" (p. 3), "Okinawa" (p. 5), "Shhh!: A Nisei Is Speaking" (p. 6), "The Emergence of Yellow Power in America" (p. 8-9).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-7/

doc Gidra, Vol. I, No. 5 (August 1969) (ddr-densho-297-5)

Selected article titles: "CINCIP Is Here!!" (p. 1), "The Burden of Life" (p. 1), "Hey, Look Me Over" (p. 5), "The Chinese in Los Angeles" (p. 6), "The Korean Americans" (p. 8), "The Filipino Immigrant" (p. 9).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-5/

doc Gidra, Vol. I, No. 3 (June 1969) (ddr-densho-297-3)

Selected article titlese: "The Persecution Rests" (p. 1), "CS, It's a Gas!" (p. 1), "Reflections in a Slanted Eye" (p. 2), "Grapes Are Coming!" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-3/

doc Gidra, Vol. II, No. 1 (January 1970) (ddr-densho-297-10)

Selected article titles: "Soldiers Oppose War" (p. 2), "Remember 1942?" (p. 2), "Chuck Smokes Hi Pot" (p. 3). Prof Says - 'They're Quiet'" (p. 3), "Panthers 'Vamped' Again" (p. 3), "Rebel with a Cause . . ." (p. 6-7), "Tutorial Project" (p. 12-13).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297-10/

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