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Invitation to Yuri Domoto from Margaret (ddr-densho-356-164)
doc Invitation to Yuri Domoto from Margaret (ddr-densho-356-164)
Envelope and fabric invitation to celebrate Masa's engagement from Margaret to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-164/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-766)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-766)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading correspondence regarding Japanese Americans, discussion about forming an office for gathering information about evacuation, and various types of social assistance to Japanese Americans.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-766/
Admission ticket (ddr-densho-356-178)
doc Admission ticket (ddr-densho-356-178)
Admission ticket for Panama-Pacific International Exposition Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Japan Beautiful exhibit.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-178/
Brief Analysis of Problems of Enemy Aliens with particular reference to San Francisco (ddr-densho-356-764)
doc Brief Analysis of Problems of Enemy Aliens with particular reference to San Francisco (ddr-densho-356-764)
A report from February 4, 1942 on immigrants of German, Italian, and Japanese descent living in California, the issues these communities are facing due to the war, xenophobia, and racism, and what the Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies Family Welfare Council can do to support them.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-764/
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mildred Allen (ddr-densho-356-542)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mildred Allen (ddr-densho-356-542)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mildred Allen. Mildred provides a list of contacts in New York City that may be able to help Yuri find a job on the East Coast. Additionally she writes about press about the war, her thoughts about Japanese Americans being released from camps and her observations of others reactions to …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-542/
Meeting Minutes from the Special National Board Meeting of the Japanese American Citizens League on March 8, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-768)
doc Meeting Minutes from the Special National Board Meeting of the Japanese American Citizens League on March 8, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-768)
Meeting minutes from the JACL Special Nation Board Meeting. Topics include bids for national membership, future organization and activities, Appointment of national committee chairmen, nomination of officers, Washington representative, Special report on evacuation, and discussion on general evacuation principles.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-768/
Memo to assembly center managers on clothing allotment procedure (ddr-densho-356-781)
doc Memo to assembly center managers on clothing allotment procedure (ddr-densho-356-781)
Memo to all Assembly Center Mangers from R. L. Nicholson, Chief, Reception Center on the procedure for the purchasing of clothing for evacuees.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-781/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-761)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-761)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading of correspondence regarding Issei being detained by authorities, relief funds frozen as some of the account holders were Issei, Japanese American Citizens' League seeking advise, and violence by Filipino Americans against Japanese Americans.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-761/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-763)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-763)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: ideas to support the Japanese American community as it faces discrimination, how to use media to lessen confusion between state and federal orders, working with California's Norther Civil Rights Committee, and questions about who would assist the …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-763/
Visitor permit (ddr-densho-356-179)
doc Visitor permit (ddr-densho-356-179)
Visitor's permit to visit the Tenyo Maru on October 23, 1915 while docked in San Francisco.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-179/
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 51 (ddr-densho-356-737)
doc Civilian Exclusion Order No. 51 (ddr-densho-356-737)
Pamphlet of Civilian Exclusion Order No. 51, includes a map of the prohibited area in California that was being evacuated on May 13, 1942.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-737/
Letter to Harry L. Black from E. Sandquist regarding status of students requesting to attending inland universities (ddr-densho-356-789)
doc Letter to Harry L. Black from E. Sandquist regarding status of students requesting to attending inland universities (ddr-densho-356-789)
Letter to Harry L. Black, Merced Assembly Center Manager from E. Sandquist, Chief Operations Section Wartime Civil Control Administration. Sandquist informs that the inland universities have been submitted for approval to the War Department and Navy Department and are pending formal approval.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-789/
Memo to assembly center managers about applications for release (ddr-densho-356-788)
doc Memo to assembly center managers about applications for release (ddr-densho-356-788)
Memo to all Assembly Center Managers from Wartime Civil Control Administration regarding policy and procedure for internee's applications for release.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-788/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 20, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-767)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 20, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-767)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 20, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading correspondence regarding Japanese Americans, summery of recent board meeting, planned community outreach regarding public sentiment towards Japanese Americans, and planning financial assistance for Japanese Americans.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-767/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-759)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-759)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941. Topics covered in the meeting include: Japanese travel restrictions, public school reactions, summary of conference with State Employment Department on employment of Japanese Americans, financial issues facing Japanese nationals due to the war, situation facing Italian and German immigrants, and community responses to …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-759/
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-765)
doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-765)
Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: public support for German immigrants, and updates to restrictions on Japanese Americans in California, plans to help effected Japanese Americans.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-765/
Letter from US Public Health Services to Merced Assembly Center regarding the sale of contraceptives (ddr-densho-356-786)
doc Letter from US Public Health Services to Merced Assembly Center regarding the sale of contraceptives (ddr-densho-356-786)
Letter from W. T. Harrison, Senior Surgeon and Director of District # 5 with U.S. Public Health Services in San Francisco to Harry L. Black, Manager of Merced Assembly Center. The letter discusses the availability of contraceptives and venereal prophylactics to internees, and advises Merced make these items available to residents and provide medical guidance on …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-786/
Dale Minami Interview (ddr-densho-1000-141)
vh Dale Minami Interview (ddr-densho-1000-141)
Sansei male. Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-141/
Newspaper clippings (ddr-njpa-1-799)
doc Newspaper clippings (ddr-njpa-1-799)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Opposes Amendment of the Anti-Japanese Immigration Law. Congressman Kramer Claims Domestic Depression Allows No Leeway. Charles Kramer is currently staying in Hawaii because of his positions on the congressional committees on immigration and narcotics and is spending most of his time in activities related to those areas. Asked for his feelings on …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-1-799/

Narrator Kathy Yamaguchi

Kathy Yamaguchi (pseudonym) was born in 1948 as a Sansei daughter of a homemaker and a gardener, who had met in the incarceration camp in Topaz, Utah. Yamaguchi calls her father an "assimilationist" who mostly associated with non-Asians, and she feels that she, too, did not have a lot of Japanese American friends when she was …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/963/

Narrator Dale Minami

Sansei male. Born in Los Angeles, California on October 13, 1946, and grew up in Gardena, California. Received B.A. in Political Science from University of Southern California, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. Received J.D., 1971, from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California. Mr. Minami was a co-founder of the …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/134/
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