Agriculture

Many Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrants) began as sharecroppers. Others sought to buy land, but the Issei had to overcome obstacles preventing them from competing with white farmers. California and other states passed alien land laws prohibiting Asian immigrants from purchasing or leasing agricultural land. There were ways around the discriminatory laws: an Issei father could put the property in the name of his American-born child, or issei could form corporations in which a majority of the shareholders were American citizens. Despite the alien land laws, Issei farmers played a significant role in West Coast agriculture. In the years just prior to World War II, Japanese American families grew 35 percent of the produce in California. By the 1920s, Japanese Americans supplied 75 percent of the produce and half the milk to the Puget Sound region.

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Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-61-3)
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Helping on family's strawberry farm as a child

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Homer Yasui Interview II Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-27-12)
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The prewar agricultural community in Hood River, Oregon

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Yoshimitsu Suyematsu Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-66-5)
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Description of family's prewar strawberry farm

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Yoshimitsu Suyematsu Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-66-3)
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Prewar strawberry farming: a communal process

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Ruth Sasaki Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-64-3)
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Growing up on family's farm

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Kitako Izumizaki Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1015-3-22)
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Changes in agriculture: the shift from small farmers to large companies
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Father's formation of a farming corporation with other families
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