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60 items
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Harsh Canvas: Henry Sugimoto (ddr-densho-1024-89)
A 2001 biographical documentary film on the life and work of Issei artist Henry Sugimoto, based on the artist's memoirs and testimony before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. The film highlights Sugimoto's art through archival and contemporary footage and follows his life's journey from immigration to his incarceration with his family during …
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Point Loma High School Commencement Program 1939 (ddr-densho-446-425)
Ryo Morikawa's graduation program. She was one of the few Nisei in her class of 144 student.
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Unexpected Journeys: Remarkable Stories of Japanese in America (ddr-densho-1024-92)
Documentary film consisting of short profiles of Japanese Americans whose "surprising stories" were shaped by World War II in unusual ways.
See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Unexpected Journeys: Remarkable Stories of Japanese in America (film).
See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ddr-densho-1024-92.
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9066 to 9/11: America's Concentration Camps Then... and Now? (ddr-densho-1024-91)
A 2004 documentary film directed by Akira Boch that looks at the World War II expulsion of Japanese Americans into American concentration camps through the contemporary lens of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: 9066 to 9/11: America's Concentration Camps Then... and Now? (film).
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Set of form letters sent to JACL members (ddr-chijacl-1-430)
Thanks them for their advocacy for the Commission Bill
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Yuki Shimoda: Asian American Actor (ddr-densho-1024-87)
The thirty-year acting career of the late Yuki Shimoda reflects the achievement and career disappointments that faced the minority actor. Only offered limited roles by the Hollywood establishment during certain points of his career, Shimoda persevered on for challenging dramatic roles, such as in the television movie, FAREWELL TO MANZANAR. Shimoda’s journey from Sacramento’s “J-Town,” to …
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Letter to Key Kobayashi from Bill Yoshino (ddr-chijacl-1-543)
With list of witnesses who provided written testimonies for the Chicago hearings of the CWRIC