Sharon Sobie Seymour Interview Segment 8
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Seattle Chapter JACL
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ddr-sjacl-2-27-8 ()
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Challenges as first hapa president of the Seattle JACL chapter
0:07:55 — Segment 8 of 11
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Seattle JACL Oral History Collection
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Seattle JACL
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Courtesy of Densho
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Seattle Chapter JACL
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ddr-sjacl-2-27
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Sharon Sobie Seymour Interview
1:18:43 — 11 segments
DATE
15-Dec-20
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Kristen M. Eng and Bill Tashima interviewed Sharon Sobie Seymour. Seymour was Seattle Chapter President in 2000 was the first "hapa" or mixed-race Japanese American Seattle JACL President. Seymour represented a new wave of JACL leaders. Seymour led the Chapter to engage in broadening the Chapter's educational programs by teaming with other Chapter members to conduct Teacher Workshops on the JA Experience. Seymour faced obstacles through her tenure that she successfully overcame.
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Kristen M. Eng, interviewer; Bill Tashima, interviewer
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Seattle JACL
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Courtesy of Seattle JACL, Densho
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.