Yo Shinoda for Grace Umezawa

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Alameda Japanese American History Project
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OBJECT ID

ddr-ajah-8-11

PARENT COLLECTION

Alameda Japanese American History Project: Digital Stories Collection

DESCRIPTION

In this video, Yo Shinoda talks about her mother, Grace Kuniye Umezawa. Grace was born in Alameda, and was the first Japanese American girl to graduate from Alameda High School. During World War II, removed to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Grace worked as a teacher at the navy language school in Boulder, Colorado. AFter the war, she worked for the U.S. government in Tokyo as a translator.

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DATE

2012

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Interviews

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Audio/Visual

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The Alameda Free Library

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Courtesy of the Alameda Free Library and the Alameda Japanese American History Project

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