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Men standing behind President Jimmy Carter in White House, signing of Commission of Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens Act into law (ddr-densho-393-5)
img Men standing behind President Jimmy Carter in White House, signing of Commission of Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens Act into law (ddr-densho-393-5)
Unknown, Clifford Uyeda, Ted Stevens, Daniel Inouye, Ron Ikejiri, Barbara Ikejiri, Norm Mineta, Spark Matsunaga, George Danielson. President Carter seated. photo front and back. Signed by George Danielson, Congressman from California.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-393-5/
Monument (ddr-densho-35-2)
img Monument (ddr-densho-35-2)
In 1979, to commemorate the Tule Lake concentration camp, the Japanese American Citizens League and the California State Department of Parks and Recreation erected this monument, located outside the stockade area.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-2/
Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-256)
img Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-256)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Construction of this War Relocation Authority center has commenced. Approximately 10,000 evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed here for the duration.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-256/
Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-37-485)
img Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-37-485)
Original WRA caption: Salinas Assembly Center, Salinas, California. Barracks interior at assembly center where persons of Japanese ancestry lived temporarily after evacuation from the west coast in the spring of 1942.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-485/
Postcard to Yuri Tsukada from Betty (ddr-densho-356-394)
doc Postcard to Yuri Tsukada from Betty (ddr-densho-356-394)
Postcard to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Betty that teases stories from a trip to California. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-394/
New assembly center arrivals (ddr-densho-151-9)
img New assembly center arrivals (ddr-densho-151-9)
Original WRA caption: Turlock, California. These children have just arrived at Turlock Assembly center. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be transferred later to a War Relocation Authority center for the duration.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-9/
Young Japanese American outside barracks (ddr-densho-151-283)
img Young Japanese American outside barracks (ddr-densho-151-283)
Original caption: Sacramento, California. Another of the young students of Japanese ancestry just evacuated who has completed two years at the San Jose College. Her ambition is to become a nurse.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-283/
Students walking to barracks (ddr-densho-151-360)
img Students walking to barracks (ddr-densho-151-360)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Pre-school children on the way to their barrack homes from morning class at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-360/
Japanese Americans waiting for doctor (ddr-densho-151-423)
img Japanese Americans waiting for doctor (ddr-densho-151-423)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees waiting their turn to be called by the nurse at the medical clinic at this War Relocation center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-423/
Baggage inspection (ddr-densho-151-221)
img Baggage inspection (ddr-densho-151-221)
Original caption: Turlock, California. Heads of families of Japanese ancestry are gathered about the table where their hand- baggage is being inspected for contraband before being admitted into the Assembly center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-221/
Preschool class (ddr-densho-151-332)
img Preschool class (ddr-densho-151-332)
Original caption: San Bruno, California. Pre-school evacuee children at this assembly center number 25 with six volunteer student teachers being trained by a Mills College graduate, all of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-332/
View of Stockton Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-254)
img View of Stockton Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-254)
Original caption: Stockton, California. Part of the Stockton Assembly center as seen at noon on a hot day. This center has been open to evacuees of Japanese ancestry for one week.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-254/
Japanese Americans waiting to register for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-239)
img Japanese Americans waiting to register for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-239)
Original caption: Byron, California. Laborers of Japanese ancestry from a large-scale asparagus ranch are at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station awaiting their return to be interviewed prior to evacuation.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-239/
Family inside barracks (ddr-densho-151-416)
img Family inside barracks (ddr-densho-151-416)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A typical interior scene in one of the barrack apartments at this center. Note the cloth partition which lends a small amount of privacy.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-416/
Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-133)
img Japanese Americans registering for mass removal (ddr-densho-151-133)
Original caption: San Francisco, California. The residents of Japanese ancestry appear at 2031 Bush Street for information on evacuation. Evacuees will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-133/
Japanese Americans saying goodbye (ddr-densho-151-42)
img Japanese Americans saying goodbye (ddr-densho-151-42)
Original WRA caption: Woodland, California. Filled with evacuees of Japanese ancestry, the special train is ready to depart from this rich agricultural section for the Merced Assembly Center, 125 miles away.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-42/
Family preparing to board bus (ddr-densho-151-266)
img Family preparing to board bus (ddr-densho-151-266)
Original caption: San Francisco, California. San Francisco residents of Japanese ancestry being checked by registration numbers and family groups prior to boarding buses which will take them to an Assembly center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-266/
Issei woman waits with baggage (ddr-densho-151-210)
img Issei woman waits with baggage (ddr-densho-151-210)
Original caption: Centerville, California. This evacuee stands by her baggage as she waits for evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-210/
Issei woman and children waiting for bus (ddr-densho-151-169)
img Issei woman and children waiting for bus (ddr-densho-151-169)
Original caption: Hayward, California. A mother with her American-born-and-educated children awaiting evacuation bus. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-169/
Art Hansen Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-295)
vh Art Hansen Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-295)
White male. Born October 10, 1938, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Education History: BA, MA, Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. Work History: Professor of History and Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton (1966-Present); Visiting Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1979-1980; Editor, Oral History Review, 1980-1987; President, Southwest Oral History Association (1991-1992); …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-295/
Art Hansen Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-310)
vh Art Hansen Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-310)
White male. Born October 10, 1938, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Education History: BA, MA, Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara. Work History: Professor of History and Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton (1966-Present); Visiting Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1979-1980; Editor, Oral History Review, 1980-1987; President, Southwest Oral History Association (1991-1992); …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-310/
Testimony of Misayo Kumakuro (ddr-densho-67-263)
doc Testimony of Misayo Kumakuro (ddr-densho-67-263)
Written testimony of Misayo Kumakuro, born in Santa Anna, California. Incarcerated in the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. This testimony was submitted for the CWRIC hearings in Seattle, Washington, September 9-11, 1981.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-67-263/
The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 39 No. 21 (November 19, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-47)
doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 39 No. 21 (November 19, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-47)
Selected article titles: "Over 1,600 Issei citizens on Veterans Day" (p. 1), "Supreme Court deadlocked on cemetery discrimination issue" (p. 1), "Touch of Orient in California fertile grounds for literature" (p. 3).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-26-47/
The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 38 No. 24 (June 11, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-24)
doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 38 No. 24 (June 11, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-24)
Selected article titles: "Charge California officials slow to aid refugee" (p. 1), "Two Seattle Nisei buyers refused homes" (p. 1), "Alien Japanese population in Hawaii dwindling -- by death or naturalization" (p. 3).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-26-24/
Pacific Citizen, Vol. 120, No. 3 (February 3-16, 1995) (ddr-pc-67-3)
doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 120, No. 3 (February 3-16, 1995) (ddr-pc-67-3)
Selected article titles: "ORA Schedules Redress Payments" (p. 1), "JACL Supports Northern California Earthquake Relief Fund" (p. 1), "Revisiting the Heart Mountain Experience" (p. 5), and "Organizations Aid Kobe Victims" (p. 5).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-67-3/
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