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October 23, 1994

JACL Philadelphia Oral History Collection

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Grayce Kaneda Uyehara

Grayce Kaneda Uyehara Interview

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October 23, 1994

Medford, New Jersey

Nisei female. Born July 4, 1919. Raised in Stockton, California. During World War II, removed during senior year at College of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Incarcerated at the Stockton Assembly Center and Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas. Resettled with family members in Philadelphia. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. Active volunteer with the JACL: co-organizer of the Philadelphia chapter, and member of both the National JACL Redress Committee and JACL Legislative Education committee. Volunteer with the JACL Legislative Education Committee from October 1985 to February 1986. From 1986-88 partially compensated for role as executive director of JACL Legislative Education Committee.

Herbert J. Horikawa, interviewer

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