7 items
7 items
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Testimony of Lawson Fusao Inada (ddr-densho-67-168)
Written testimony of Lawson Fusao Inada of Ashland, Oregon. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "WRA Policies, Effects of 'Loyalty' Oath."
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"Drawing the Line" for Yosh Kuromiya (ddr-densho-122-557)
Typed poem by Lawson Fusao Inada, signed on last page. Poem was later published in 1997 in Inada's collection "Drawing the Line" published by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, in 1997.
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"The Return of the Fair Play Committee to Los Angeles" (ddr-densho-122-876)
Script of presentation about the history of resistance movement and activities of the Fair Play Committee
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I Told You So (ddr-densho-1024-1)
Poet Lawson Inada shows how growing up in Fresno, California influenced his writing. He visits Tule Lake, the largest of the American concentration camps, where Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned during World War II.
See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: I Told You So.
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In Search of No-No Boy (ddr-densho-1024-38)
Documentary film on the landmark novel No-No Boy and its author John Okada that includes a profile of Okada (including interviews with his widow and children), the background of the loyalty questionnaire and draft resistance , and the book's rediscovery a decade and a half later. The film includes readings of key scenes by poet Lawson …
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From a Silk Cocoon (ddr-densho-1024-54)
Documentary film recounting the wartime story of a Kibei couple, Itaru and Shizuko Ina and their two young children as reconstructed by their daughter Satsuki Ina. Ina and co-directors Emery Clay III and Stephen Holsapple tell the story largely through the couple's own words in the form of Shizuko's diary and letters to each other when …