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MN: Okay, now you went to Wiseburn Grammar School. Now, from Wiseburn did you go to a middle school or did you go directly to high school?

TY: There was no middle school then. I went directly to high school.

MN: And that would be Leuzinger High?

TY: Yes.

MN: What was the racial makeup of Leuzinger?

TY: I would say about one quarter Asian and about three, say about, Hispanic about maybe three percent, and then the whites was half, about three quarter of the student body was white, I guess.

MN: Were there any blacks?

TY: Hardly.

MN: How did the non-Japanese students and teachers treat the Japanese American students?

TY: I didn't get it. Sorry.

MN: How did the other, non-Japanese American students and teachers, how did they treat the Japanese American students?

TY: How did they teach us?

MN: Treat you.

TY: Just like you and me, anybody else. There was no prejudice then, or racism. Only racism was Mexicans didn't like Japanese. That's about what it was.

MN: How did you know that they didn't like Japanese?

TY: They'd throw a rock at us, "You Jap, you Jap." That's the only reason.

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