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Ron Magden Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-162-13)
Experiences in high school on a solo five-week road trip: discovering love of travel
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-162-11)
Boise residents' reactions to so-called "voluntary evacuation" of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to Idaho
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-162-23)
Being asked to write a book on the history of the Longshoreman's Union in Washington state: a skeptical reception at first
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-162-14)
Mother's influence upon decision attend the University of Idaho instead of enlisting in the merchant marines
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-162-18)
Getting in "trouble" while teaching in the Renton school district because of views on Communism
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-162-4)
Early memories: living in a tent during the Great Depression, living during summers with a Finnish family
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-162-34)
Working to correct the records of Japanese Americans from Tacoma and Pierce County killed in World War II, with the aim of eventually erecting a monument
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-162-27)
The process of writing Furusato, a history of the Japanese Community in Tacoma, Washington
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-162-22)
Choosing to teach at Tacoma Community College after earning Ph.D.
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 24 (ddr-densho-1000-162-24)
Positive reception of the longshoremen to book about their history
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-162-19)
The influence of Brown v. Board of Education on race relations policies at Renton high school; working for an open-minded principal
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-162-17)
Pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Washington amidst the anti-Communist period in the 1950s
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-162-10)
Living in Boise, Idaho, after December 7, 1941: observing racist attitudes towards Japanese Americans
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-162-16)
Upon graduation from college, took a teaching job in Orofino, Idaho; experiences with Native Americans in the student population
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-162-8)
Early years of World War II: questioning the isolationist slant to articles in newspapers
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-162-30)
Discussion of teamster leader Dave Beck's history of stopping Japanese farmers from driving their crops into Western Washington
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-162-2)
Influence of mother's writing on life choices
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-162-6)
An independent spirit at a young age; father left family, hitchhiking to visit him
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-162-29)
Interviewing Dave Beck, an influential leader of the Teamsters Union in Washington state, for a book on the history of the teamsters
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-162-26)
Being asked to write a book on the history of the Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans in Tacoma, Washington
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-162-20)
Discussion of teaching style: "I tried to make the classroom an exciting place"
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-162-32)
Involvement in writing a book on the history of the Seattle Buddhist Temple
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Ron Magden Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-162-31)
Experiences interviewing teamsters to capture their history