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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 23 (April 16, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-203)
Selected article titles: "Northern Colorado, Denver Reaches Saturation Point" (p. 1), "Disposal Pits to be Dug For Clean-up Day" (p. 1), "Granada Adopts Ordinances" (p. 1), "Largest Group Leaves Project" (p. 1), "No Authority Yet to Freeze Farm Workers: Assurance Given By Choate" (p. 1), "Sunday Papers Now Sold at 29" (p. 1), "An Editorial: Let's …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 36 (August 27, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-32)
Selected article titles: "Oratorical Contest Tonight and Friday" (p. 1), "Camp Harmony Residents Here" (p. 1), "Volunteer Committee on Merit System" (p. 1), "Oratorical Extra" (p. 1), "15 Cuties Entered in Queen Contest" (p. 1), "Cars for Business Only" (p. 2), "Permits Needed to Visit Farm" (p. 2), "381 in First Aid Classes" (p. 2), "The …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 48, No. 18 (May 1, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-18)
Selected article titles: "Fair Housing Act in Colorado out on shaky start" (p. 1), "Calif. fair housing bill pending in Senate committee" (p. 1), "Aged Issei dies without known survivors, had refused to make will leaving $50,000" (p. 1), "Racial differences noted in attack of cancer, Japanese high in stomach cases" (p. 2), "New York telecasting …
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Postcard from Lily to Mitzi Naohara, October 31, 1944 (ddr-csujad-38-375)
A postcard from Lily in Chicago to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara incarcerated in the Poston camp in Arizona. Lily writes from Chicago, Illinois, on her way to Denver, Colorado. She is planing to visit Geo and go to the Gila River camp in Arizona where her family was incarcerated. An item from: Mitzi Naohara scrapbook (csudh_nao_0400), page …
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Rohwer Outpost Vol. I No. 15 (December 16, 1942) (ddr-densho-143-16)
Selected article titles: "Citizens May Use Cameras" (p. 1), "Mail Order Department, Unit of Enterprises, States Sellers" (p. 1), "Farm Land Development Begins in Preparation for Spring Planting" (p. 1), "Only Wood For Fuel. Coal Will Not be Provided" (p. 1), "Presenting J.B. Hunter, Chief of Community Services Division" (p. 3), "Inter-Center Visitor Describes Relocation Life …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. 2, No. 21 (ddr-densho-156-198)
Article titles: "Joseph Smart Will Direct Jap Centers in Mountain States"; "Japanese Decries Mass Evacuation"; "Japanese Found Dead in Blood-Stained Room"; "Diplomas Presented to 143 Japanese High School Graduates"; "Postal Route Will Open to Serve Reception Center"; "Tule Lake Japanese Will Not Produce Potatoes for Sale"; "Colorado Jap Who Slew Wife Sentenced to Die"; "No Fairs …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. V, No. 8 (ddr-densho-156-248)
Article titles: "Summary of News from Heart Mountain Relocation Center"; "'Heart' Proper Spelling, Powell Paper Declares"; "Unfounded Rumors Circulate About Japanese Center"; "Pictorial Record of the Heart Mountain Center's Growth"; "One Hundred Days Old"; "Family Groups at Heart Mountain"; "Japs Help Relieve Labor Shortage"; "Use of Jap Labor in Prowers Beet Fields Approved"; "Government Asked to …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. VI, No. 5 (ddr-densho-156-269)
Article titles: "Mexican Workers Arrive on Coast"; "969 Jap Evacuees Labor on Colorado and Nebraska Crops"; "FBI Searches 20,000 Homes"; "Marriage Was Invalid"; "Japanese Sentenced for Leaving Assembly Center"; "Jap Captives Ask to Join U.S. Airforce"; "Pro Nazis Deserve to Lose U.S. Citizenship"; "Mayor Stewart Raps Sale of Milk to Japs"; "Farm Labor Shortage Magnified by …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 10 (ddr-densho-156-211)
Article titles: "Zone Violation Jails Japanese for Six Months"; "Tulelake-Newell Traffic Reported Nearly Normal"; "War Hysteria, 1918 and 1942"; "Japanese Center to be Self-Supporting"; "Evacuation of Japanese from Military Areas Explained"; "Churches Appoint Women to Assist Japs in Colorado"; "Second Child Born at Tule Lake Relocation Center"; "Farm Help from Evacuees Major Topic of Session"; "As …
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Fujiko "Fuzzy" Ishikawa Interview (ddr-densho-400-8)
Fujiko Ishikawa was born on November 18, 1912, in Oxnard, California. She grew up in Lomita, California, and attended UCLA where she met her husband Henry who became a partner in a successful produce business. She was imprisoned at Santa Anita Race Track and the concentration camp in Amache, Colorado. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, during …
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George Fujimoto Interview (ddr-densho-1000-223)
Nisei male. Born January 13, 1920 in Colusa, California. Raised in Ault, Colorado, where family operated produce and sugar beet farm. Assumed responsibility for farm at age 15 when father suffered debilitating accident. Drafted into Army in 1942. After basic training in Camp Robinson, Arkansas, transferred to Fort Riley, Kansas. Attended second basic training in Camp …
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Maps of incarceration camps in the western United States (ddr-csujad-55-98)
Series of maps including incarceration camps in the western United States, temporary assembly centers in California, Manzanar camp in California, Gila River camp in Arizona, Topaz camp in Utah, Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming, Poston camp in Arizona, Amache camp in Colorado, Tule Lake camp in California, Rohwer camp in Arkansas, Minidoka camp in Idaho, and …
Narrator Yoshimi Hasui Watada
Nisei female. Born August 23, 1935, in Brawley, California. Grew up in the town of Niland, California. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved along with family and a group of other Japanese American families to Boise City, Oklahoma. After living there for about six months, moved to Rocky Ford, Colorado.
Narrator Thomas Shigekuni
Nisei male. Born August 4, 1929, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles where parents ran a nursery business. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, lived briefly in Illinois before returning to California.
Narrator Nancy K. Araki
Sansei female. Born October 16, 1937, in San Francisco, California. During World War II, removed to the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Family briefly left camp for Utah before voluntarily entering the Topaz concentration camp, Utah, when mother was pregnant. After leaving camp, returned to San Francisco and resumed elementary school.
Narrator Peggy Yamato Mikuni
Sansei female. Born May 27, 1929, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp for Denver, Colorado, and eventually returned to Los Angeles, California. Took over father's travel agency in Los Angeles.
Narrator Mary Schroeder
White female. Born December 4, 1940, in Boulder, Colorado. Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In Gordon Hirabayashi's 1983 coram nobis case, Judge Schroeder authored the opinion which vacated both Hirabayashi's curfew and exclusion convictions on proof of the allegations of governmental misconduct.
Narrator Nobuko Miyake-Stoner
Japanese female. Born Feburary 10, 1952, in Hiroshima, Japan. Descendant of survivors of the atomic bombing in 1945. Father was a kamikaze pilot during World War II who was unable to fulfill his mission due to the war's end. Nobuko attended the Hiroshima Jogakuin, a missionary school established for young women. Graduated with an M.A. in …
Narrator Lillian Sato
Nisei/Sansei female. Born December 14, 1928, in Stockton, California. Father was Issei and mother was Nisei, born in Hawaii. Grew up in Santa Monica, California. During World War II, moved with family to Colorado to avoid mass removal. Remained in Denver, later operating a grocery store and greenhouse business with husband.
Narrator David Matsuoka
Nisei male. Born December 21, 1929, in Walnut Grove, California. Grew up in Walnut Grove where father owned and operator a shoe sales and repair business. During World War II, removed with family to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and Granada concentration camp, Colorado. Returned to California as a high school student.
Narrator Betty Tanakatsubo
Nisei female. Born June 15, 1925, in Sacramento, California. During World War II, removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Transferred to the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Left camp for Cleveland, Ohio, and worked for the War Relocation Authority. Eventually settled in Chicago, Illinois.
Narrator Keith One
Sansei male. Born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Parents' families lived in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, they were sent to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Both parents resettled in Chicago after the war, where they met and Keith was born.
Narrator Bob Y. Sakata
Nisei male. Born April 15, 1926 in Alameda, California. Spent childhood in Alameda where family operated 10-acre farm. Removed to Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Resettled in Brighton, Colorado, and resumed farming. Along with wife and son, owns and operates Sakata Farms, currently one of the top produce growers in the country.
Narrator Frances Midori Tashiro Kaji
Nisei female. Born April 30, 1928, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, where father was a prominent medical physician. During World War II, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Left camp with family to work on a sugar beet farm in Colorado, and eventually returned to Los Angeles, where father …
Narrator Chiye Tomihiro
Nisei female. Born December 20, 1924, in Portland, Oregon. Incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled first in Denver, Colorado and later in Chicago, Illinois. Former witness chair for Chicago area hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) and former chairperson of the JACL Chicago …