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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview (ddr-densho-1000-155)
White male. Born November 14, 1937, in Seattle, Washington. Son of Reverend Emery Andrews, the Japanese Baptist Church minister in Seattle for many years. After the Japanese Americans in Seattle were removed to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, Emery Brooks moved with family to Twin Falls, Idaho, to minister to Nikkei in camp. Visited Japanese American friends …
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Thank you letter (ddr-densho-277-190)
A letter thanking Emery Andrews for a donation to the White River Valley JACL Chapter.
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Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XIII, No. 2, February 1976 (ddr-sjacl-1-187)
Bulletin covering the following topics: Installation Banquet recap; nice full page on Emery Andrews; Youth Grant program recap.
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Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XIII, No. 2, February 1976 (ddr-sjacl-1-253)
Newsletter covering the following topics: Installation Banquet recap; nice full page on Emery Andrews; Youth Grant program recap.
Narrator Emery Brooks Andrews
White male. Born November 14, 1937, in Seattle, Washington. Son of Reverend Emery Andrews, the Japanese Baptist Church minister in Seattle for many years. After the Japanese Americans in Seattle were removed to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, Emery Brooks moved with family to Twin Falls, Idaho, to minister to Nikkei in camp. Visited Japanese American friends …
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Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XIII, No. 6, June 1976 (ddr-sjacl-1-256)
Newsletter covering the following topics: Scholarship winners; Andrews-Jayna Matsudaira $100; Tamesa-Louis Egashira, Jean Okamoto, Gary Kato, Beverly Akada $200; Emery Andrews passes away; Reprint of Highline Times on Uhachi Tamesa, this article mentions Minoru and why Uhachi wants to honor him. Uhachi will be honorary mayor of Burien ride at the head of the July 4th …
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Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XIII, No. 6, June 1976 (ddr-sjacl-1-191)
Bulletin covering the following topics: scholarship winners; Andrews-Jayna Matsudaira $100; Tamesa-Louis Egashira, Jean Okamoto, Gary Kato, Beverly Akada $200; Emery Andrews passes awayl reprint of Highline Times on Uhachi Tamesa, this article mentions Minoru and why Uhachi wants to honor him. Uhachi will be honorary mayor of Burien ride at the head of the July 4th …
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-155-12)
Family home in Twin Falls becomes a hostel for numerous Japanese Americans throughout the wartime
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-155-5)
Father's early involvement with the Seattle Japanese American community, and the Seattle Japanese Baptist Church
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-155-25)
Returning to Seattle and working in various occupations
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-155-34)
Looking back on life experiences
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-155-4)
Father's early work in religion, focus on ethnic groups
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-155-27)
Description of father's funeral service: feeling overwhelmed by showing of community support
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-155-3)
Parents meeting and moving to Seattle
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-155-35)
Continuing connection with the Japanese American community: "I don't think that tie will ever be broken"
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-155-23)
Memories of parents' divorce in 1955
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-155-20)
Attending Bailey Gatzert elementary school after the war
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-155-32)
Meeting some Nisei on a second trip to the former site of the Minidoka concentration camp, sharing stories
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-155-2)
Family background: parents from Midwest
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-155-24)
Attending the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, then deciding to withdraw
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-155-21)
Growing up postwar: feeling the pressure to excel as the son of a pastor
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-155-8)
Observing the tumultuous period after the bombing of Pearl Harbor: Japanese American congregation rushes to store belongings in church basement
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-155-6)
Attending nursery school with Japanese American children, not feeling racially different
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-155-10)
Family decides to move to Twin Falls, Idaho, following the Japanese Americans to Minidoka concentration camp
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Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-155-9)
First Sunday after mass removal: father is left with an empty church; memories of visiting Japanese American friends through the barbed wire at "Camp Harmony"