Sansei male. Born in April 23, 1938, in San Francisco, California. Spent first few years in San Francisco where parents were farming. During World War II, removed with family to the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. After the war, returned to California and Hirotoshi attended school and eventually the University of …
Color photograph of Gayle (Taketomo) Hayashi posing with her uncle-in-law, Warren Hayashi, at the California Flower Market. Written along the top is "1980 California Flower Market Gayle Warren" in black ink.
Leaving camp and living in Illinois briefly before returning to California
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Attending school in camp, mixing with kids from other parts of California
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"Beating the system": effecting a transfer to Fort MacArthur, California
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Being the target of a smear campaign while running for California State Assembly
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Released from Bismarck and transferred to the Santa Anita assembly center, California
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Growing up in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California
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Leaving school and returning to California due to father's illness
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Returning to California after the war as a high school student
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Charlie and brother remain in California while family moved to Albuquerque
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Leaving California and returning to New Mexico in a car caravan
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Moving to California, hiding Japanese American identity when the war broke out
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Leaving camp and living in a trailer camp in Burbank, California
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Mother, born in California, goes to Japan as a child
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Interacting for the first time with Japanese Americans from California in camp
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Restoration of U.S. citizenship, a ten-year legal effort by Wayne Collins
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Receiving support from a pacifist Christian group in decision to renounce U.S. citizenship
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Discussion of book title, "Beyond Loyalty..." and why the Japanese version had a different title
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This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding …
Nisei male. Born November 8, 1922, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood and adolescence in Loomis, California, before spending senior year in high school in Los Angeles, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to Marysville Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Resisted the draft and renounced U.S. citizenship, remaining with …
Nisei male. Born November 8, 1922, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood and adolescence in Loomis, California, before spending senior year in high school in Los Angeles, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to Marysville Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Resisted the draft and renounced U.S. citizenship, remaining with …
Photographed is Mitzi Masukawa Naohara. It is taken in Monterey, California. The caption reads: Monterey, California. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 22. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_02_22_004
Letter of gratitude from Tsuneo Iwata president of the Turlock Social Club to Mayor Roy M. Day of Turlock, California, in response to the mass removal in California. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csus_nac_0013
A letter from Emiko Amy Terada in Los Angeles, California to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas in Lawndale, California. The letter contains news of her mother's death. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nis_06_028
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