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Paul Bannai Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-128)
Nisei male. Born July 4, 1920 in Delta, Colorado. Grew up in small mining and farming towns in Colorado, Utah and Arizona, until his family moved to Boyle Heights in the Los Angeles, California area. After graduating from high school, he tested discrimination and employment practices and eventually succeeded in obtaining a job at a bank. …
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Paul Bannai Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-150)
Nisei male. Born July 4, 1920 in Delta, Colorado. Grew up in small mining and farming towns in Colorado, Utah and Arizona, until his family moved to Boyle Heights in the Los Angeles, California area. After graduating from high school, he tested discrimination and employment practices and eventually succeeded in obtaining a job at a bank. …
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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians photograph album (ddr-densho-346-1)
Paul Bannai's photograph album documenting the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings in Seattle, Washington, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, California.
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Paul Bannai Collection (ddr-densho-346)
The Paul Bannai Collection consists of a photograph album of documenting the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings. Images include meetings of the Seattle committee and scenes from the Seattle, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles hearings.
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Letter to Paul Bannai from John J. McCloy (ddr-densho-122-287)
Regarding Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment (CWRIC) hearings
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 76, No. 15, (April 20, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-15)
Select article titles: "Bannai Files for State Assembly Special Election Set for May 29" (p.1); "CL-ER Advocates Use of 'JPN' in Library Work" (p.1); "First Woman Installed Head of YMCA Board in San Francisco" (p.1); "Over 500 California Nikkei Awarded Calif. State Scholarship; 44,000 Apply" (p.3); "Curriculum Group Approves Adoption of Japanese Studies in S.F. Schools" …
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Pacific citizen, Vol. 77, No. 23, (December 7, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-48)
Select article titles: "U.S. Judge Rules 3-1 Ration for S.F. Police Dept." (p.1); "Calif. Legislature: Reappointment Settled" (p.1); "'Gambare!', Bannai Urges Nisei" (p.1); "Returned Land from U.S. Military in Japan to Be Converted into Parks" (p.5); "Geologist Says Japan Emerged from North Coast" (p.6).
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 01, (July 6, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-26)
Select article titles: "JACL Board Approves Guidelines" (p.1); "Bannai Wins Special Assembly Election" (p.1); "Social Security Amends Policy on WRA Credits (p.1); "Nikkei Address U.S. Civil Rights Commission" (p.4).
Narrator Paul Bannai
Nisei male. Born July 4, 1920, in Delta, Colorado. Grew up in small mining and farming towns in Colorado, Utah and Arizona, until his family moved to Boyle Heights in the Los Angeles, California area. After graduating from high school, he tested discrimination and employment practices and eventually succeeded in obtaining a job at a bank. …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 77, No. 11, (September 14, 1973) (ddr-pc-45-36)
Select article titles: "Vietnam Orphanages Reluctant to Put Children Up for Adoption" (p.1); "Dictionary Faulted for Ignoring 'Jap'" (p.1); "Justice Dept. May Junk Its Subversive List" (p.3); "State of Washington Report Dispels Myth 'Asians Don't Have Problems'" (p.3).
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-128-26)
Attending Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), Camp Savage, Minnesota, studying hard to catch up on Japanese language skills
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-128-7)
Communicating with and learning values from Issei parents
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-128-3)
Growing up in a small coal mining town, being the first in the family to attend school
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-128-20)
Being paid to work in camp, outside friends not allowed to visit
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-128-27)
Description of Military Intelligence Service Language School
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-128-25)
Basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi; relations between Hawaiian and mainland Japanese Americans
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-128-2)
Father's early jobs in U.S., coal mining and farming
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-128-6)
Living in an ethnically diverse community in the Boyle Heights area of California
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-128-9)
Participating in social groups and leadership activities while attending public school
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-128-1)
Grandfather's and parents' immigration to U.S.
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-128-22)
Leaving camp to work as a farm laborer in Idaho, harvesting potatoes
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-128-8)
Learning values from parents through "inspiration"
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Paul Bannai Interview I Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-128-5)
Memories of working on melon farm in Glendale, Arizona