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Elaine Ishikawa Hayes Interview I Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-157-4)
Family's prewar life in Chico, California
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May Ohmura Watanabe Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-454-2)
Parents open a produce store in Chico, California
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May Ohmura Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-454)
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …
Narrator May Ohmura Watanabe
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …
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Flood Maroons Two Japs in Tree Top for Six Days. Small Quantity of Food They Carry With Them Sustains Until They are Rescued (March 15, 1914) (ddr-densho-56-244)
The Seattle Daily Times, March 15, 1914, p. 10
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Little May Ahuuia (ddr-densho-378-810)
Photograph of a girl identified as May sitting on the ground holding a fan. Caption on album page: "Little May Ahuuia Chico Calif. 1930"
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 53, No. 16 (October 20, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-42)
Selected article titles: "Rowher Cemetery Dedicated as Arkansas Historical Site Sunday" (pp. 1-2), "Nisei-Negro Pair Go on Mission for White House" (p. 1), "U.S. Civil Rights Report Indicates Negro in California Hit Hardest in Housing Bias" (p. 2), and "Nisei Family Included in Move from N.Y. to Chico to Avoid Threat from Atomic Bombs" (p. 2).