Shigeko Sese Uno Segment 13
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ddr-densho-1000-98-13 (Legacy UID: denshovh-ushigeko-01-0013)
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Days following Pearl Harbor, "We're gonna put those Japs ... in camp, behind barbed wire"
00:02:09 — Segment 13 of 32
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Shigeko Sese Uno Interview
02:30:26 — 32 segments
DATE
September 18, 1998
LOCATION
Seattle, Washington
DESCRIPTION
Nisei female born April 6, 1915, in Seattle, Washington's International District. At an early age became active in the Japanese Baptist Church. Parents owned and operated a dairy plant called White River Dairy. Was a student at the Baptist Missionary Training School in Chicago, Illinois. Took a group of young women on an eye-opening trip to Japan right before the war started. Incarcerated with her family in the Puyallup Assembly Center with a newborn baby, moving to Minidoka concentration camp before relocating to the East Coast. Returned to Seattle in 1947 and became the first Asian American and first woman to work at the Rainier Heat and Power Company, then a key property owner and landlord in the International District. She was the first woman president of the Japanese American Citizens League, and played a lead role in the redress movement.
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Beth Kawahara, interviewer; Alice Ito, interviewer; Steve Hamada, videographer
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