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img Shoppers looking at posted exclusion orders (ddr-densho-151-84)

Original caption: San Francisco, California. Saturday afternoon shoppers reading order directing evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry. This store on Grant Avenue in Chinatown was vacated by an art dealer of Japanese descent. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.

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img Japantown store prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-325)

Original caption: Florin, California. View on main street of this little agriculture town in the center of the strawberry and grape-producing area occupied mostly by residents of Japanese ancestry. Evacuation is due in two days of people of Japanese descent from this community.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-162)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry have just arrived at this Assembly center. They have been registered and are now awaiting a guide to show them to their place in the barracks. Later they will be transferred to War Relocation Authority centers.

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img Concentration camp gardens (ddr-densho-151-71)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are growing flourishing truck crops for their own use in their "hobby gardens". These crops are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between blocks of barracks at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Japanese Americans working in garden (ddr-densho-151-371)

Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are growing flourishing truck crops for their own use in their "hobby gardens". These crops are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between blocks of barrack at this War Relocation Authority center.

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 31, No. 12, December 1994 (ddr-sjacl-1-424)

Newsletter covering the following topics: George Takei to keynote, 73rd Installation Dinner, Jan. 28, 1995, Doubletree, Tukwila, $40/person; Ray Ishii opines on racist overtones of California passage of Prop 187; Seattle JACL donates microfiche of Pacific Citizens to Seattle Public Library, 1931-1993.

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doc A message for our neighbors on the day of evacuation (ddr-densho-498-1)

A letter of concern, apology, condolence, and love from the Mrs. Woods, Pres. of Oakland Council of Church Women, Lawton Harris, Executive Secretary of East Bay Church Federation, and Robert Inglis, Pres. of East Bay Ministers' Fellowship to Japanese Americans being evacuated from Oakland, California.

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img Toshio Oku printing (ddr-csujad-3-21)

Toshio Oku prints the weekly newspaper at Tule Lake using a mimeograph machine. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tos_01_001_022

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img Tule Lake rooftops (ddr-csujad-3-4)

Photograph looking across rooftops of buildings at Tule Lake towards hills in the distance. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tos_01_001_004

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vh Gerald Fukui Interview (ddr-densho-1000-291)

Yonsei male. Born February 14, 1953, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles. After graduating from college, took over the family's prestigious mortuary business. Active in several community organizations in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo including Nisei Week and the Japanese American National Museum.

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vh Michiko Amatatsu Noritake Interview (ddr-densho-1001-4)

Nisei female. Born December 6, 1919, in Winslow, Washington. Was fired from job as a domestic following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to Manzanar concentration camp, California, and later transferred to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Following World War II, returned to Bainbridge Island, Washington.

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av Interview with Haruo Howe Hanamura (part 2 of 3) (ddr-ajah-6-308)

Part 1 of an interview with Haruo Howe Hanamura in the dining room of his home in Oakland, California. He discusses serving with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe during World War II. Part of the 1995 documentary Honor Bound: A Personal Journey.

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doc Evacuee Identification Card (ddr-csujad-29-23)

Manzanar incarceree identification card. Block 20, Building 11, Apt. 4. Belonging to Ruth Hochi. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 4137_M02

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doc Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-273)

Still waiting for order to return to service company; hopes they are able to find a house in California; went to a show; plans to go to Pisa for shopping if orders don't come through. Parents' note on envelope back: 275 Wednesday Oct. 24, 1945

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doc [ Letter to the Whitney family from Fukuda family, May 23, 1942 ] (ddr-janm-22-1)

One (1) handwritten postcard from the Fukuda family to Mr. and Mrs. Whitney on May 23, 1942, in California. The Fukuda family writes a thank you letter to the Whitney's for assisting them and seeing them off on their way to the Poston concentration camp.

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doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-246)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he informs Yuri about the beautiful views from Angel Island and his plan to visit the Bay Area again to see his family's nursery and possibly visit their Alma Mater (University of California, Berkeley).

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Collection South Bay JACL Oral History Collection (ddr-densho-400)

This collection consists of interviews conducted by the South Bay Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League as part of the South Bay History Project. The project seeks to preserve the history of Japanese American settlement in the greater South Bay community, a Southern California region south of Playa Del Rey and north of Long Beach. …

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doc Testimony of Mutsu Homma (ddr-densho-67-169)

Written testimony of Mutsu Homma of Seattle, Washington. Incarcerated at the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "Multiple Impact on Family & Redress."

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doc Testimony of Richard Takaji Nishioka (ddr-densho-67-163)

Written testimony of Richard Takaji Nishioka, born in Los Angeles, California. Incarcerated in Poston concentration camp, Arizona. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "Discrimination and Psychological Impact." Personal information excised by Densho.

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 23 No. 6 (August 10, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-32)

Selected article titles: "Application for Naturalization Will Be Accepted from Issei By Immigration Department" (p. 1), "California Judge Restrains State Body from Restricting Rights of Issei Fishermen" (p. 1), "Lack of Housing Temporarily Halts Canadian Movement" (p. 3), "JACL Chapter Reactived in Los Angeles" (p. 3).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 21 (May 31, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-22)

Selected article titles: "Evacuee Claims Proposal Backed at House Hearing" (p. 1), "Salt Lake VFW Post Passes Resolution Supporting Citizen Rights for Parents of Nisei" (p. 1), "Announce Campaign for Repeal of California Alien Land Law" (p. 3), "Canadians May Stop Return of Repatriates" (p. 7).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 19 (May 17, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-20)

Selected article titles: "33,000 Nisei Served in Army, Reports War Department" (p. 1), "California Legislator Urges Ban on State Land Law Fund" (p. 1), "Masaoka Says GI Brides Law Discriminatory" (p. 1), "Congress Asked to Terminate Internment of 300 Peruvians Of Japanese Descent in U.S." (p. 3).

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 35 No. 18 (October 31, 1952) (ddr-pc-24-44)

Selected article titles: "Acclaim Americanization classes conducted in Japanese for Issei" (p. 1), "MacArthur finally decides to give up history of Pacific war to Army" (p. 1), "Can Nisei votes swing California?" (p. 2), "Hosokawa tells of happy ending to evacuation story of Nisei" (p. 3).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol 68, No. 6 (February 7, 1969) (ddr-pc-41-6)

Select article titles: "JACL public relation aims updated" (p. 1); "Orange County bans Hershy's 'Hiroshima'" (p. 1); "Canadian Nisei judge unbenched" (p. 3); "History of racism on California topic of Kitano speech to Contra Costa 'Clers" (p. 4); "Grim Tule Lake WRA riot recalled" (p. 6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 105, No. 12 (October 16, 1987) (ddr-pc-59-37)

Selected article titles: "On 'Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution'" (pp. 1-2), "JACL Director Responds: California Releases UCB Report" (pp. 1, 6), "Supreme Court Denies Latest Bid in Yasui Case" (pp. 1, 5), and "Editorial of the Pacific Citizen: After H.R. 442: Action Alert" (p. 4).

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