Fair Play Committee

doc FBI report on Nobu Kawai (ddr-densho-122-407)

Part of FBI file on Fair Play Committee

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-407/

doc The Principles Governing the Fair Play Committee (ddr-densho-122-396)

Document establishing the Fair Play Committee

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-396/

doc "Why I like the Heart Mtn draft resisters" (ddr-densho-122-372)

Notes for personal essay

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-372/

img Yoshi Kuromiya pointing to himself in group photo of Heart Mountain resisters trial (ddr-densho-122-651)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-651/

doc Letter to Gloria Kubota from Guntaro Kubota from prison (ddr-densho-122-633)

With drawings

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-633/

doc Statement of support from Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles (ddr-densho-122-593)

to Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, including example of certificate

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-593/

doc Correspondence from Kozie Sakai to Frank Emi via George Nozawa (ddr-densho-122-452)

Copy of original letter, meeting with Watts, Saturday July 1?

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-452/

doc Copy of letter to jailed Fair Play Committee members from Kiyoshi Okamoto (ddr-densho-122-831)

Encouraging them to support James Omura in his trial for conspiracy

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-831/

doc Interview with Jack Tono (ddr-densho-122-538)

Transcript of taped interview, unknown interviewer, prison life, how the FPC formed, post-war life

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-538/

doc Clipping from front page of Rocky Shimpo (ddr-densho-122-783)

Selected articles: Civil Liberties Union reject Request by Fair Play Committee, Fair Play Group to Continue fight, Amache Petition Reported Still Being Considered

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-783/

img Victory Dinner (ddr-densho-122-717)

Celebrating the overturning of the wartime convictions. Clockwise from left: Amy Emi, Alice Nakadate, Paul Nakadate, Susie Emi, Art Emi, Alpha Wirin, Al Wirin, Frank Emi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-717/

doc Copies of Weekly reports from Guy Robertson to Dillon Myer (ddr-densho-122-855)

Reporting on activities at Heart Mountain, including actions by the Fair Play Committee

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-855/

doc Letter to group, in care of David Ishii, from Frank Chin (ddr-densho-122-194)

Notes on speakers and reactions to speakers on resisters in Wyoming, potential production projects related to resistance. Personal information redacted.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-194/

doc Letter to Frank Emi from George Nozawa (ddr-densho-122-482)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-482/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 1 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1792)

Emi discusses resisting the draft, the difference between Nisei and Caucasians, Issei attitudes toward the draft, the attitudes of draft resisters, Heart Mountain as a "model" relocation camp, being arrested in camp by the FBI, awaiting trial in jail in Cheyenne and Laramie (in WY), his family's thoughts on him resisting the draft, and a fellow …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1792/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 6 of 6; Hollywood Judo Dojo footage, part 1 of 3 (ddr-densho-1007-1745)

Interview continued from ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1796/. Emi reads a bulletin from the Fair Play Committee. Starting at 8:41, Emi and Gary (last name unknown) discuss the history of Hollywood Judo Dojo and their experiences with judo. Last few minutes of tape are b-roll the dojo. Original title: 43B, II RES/PRO #7, Frank Emi, UCLA, 5-31-86, Judo Dojo …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1745/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 4 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1795)

Emi discusses the importance of the Fair Play Committee winning their case, the lasting impact of his imprisonment, the loyalty questionnaire, the beginning of the draft resistance movement, why the story of the draft resisters doesn't get as much attention as it deserves, and why the JACL and Japanese American newspapers did not support draft resistance. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1795/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 2 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1793)

Emi discusses being imprisoned in Leavenworth, the sentences of the members of the Fair Play Committee, the Issei who financially assisted to the Committee, the Committee's legal battles, how people often agree with draft resistance with hindsight, the various opinions of Nisei veterans on draft resistance, and the sort of student he was in high school. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1793/

doc Memorandum to Loni Ding from Aiko and Jack Herzig (ddr-densho-1007-1836)

Compilation of archival and other research materials at the University of Washington, University of California, Los Angeles, NARA, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania related to Japanese American life before the war, incarceration, resistance, and other wartime experience.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1836/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 5 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1796)

Emi discusses community organizations and publications that shunned the draft resisters, the statement by the Fair Play Committee that triggered their arrest, what his children know of his time in camp, and why some Nisei and Issei don't discuss what happened during the war. Emi also reads a letter from George Ishikawa leading up to the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1796/

av Interview with Frank Emi, part 3 of 6 (ddr-densho-1007-1794)

Emi discusses the racial discrimination he experienced as a child, not speaking up for himself in high school, the impact of racism on Nisei, the lessons he learned from his parents, the Fair Play Committee's case in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, and the charges levied against the Committee. Interview starts at 0:31. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1794/

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