PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-120

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Redefining Community: The Evolution of Sawtelle Japantown is an animated documentary about the history of Japanese Americans in the Sawtelle Japantown area of Los Angeles. Narration of the documentary comes directly from over 20 oral history interviews of people who resided in Sawtelle before and after World War II. The film covers the initial formation of Sawtelle in the early 1900s and progresses through the war incarceration experience and resettlement period after the war.

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-120.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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