59 items
59 items

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to City Council President (ddr-densho-468-187)
Letter protesting segregation of Lincoln, Nebraska, municipal swimming pool

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Joseph Conard (ddr-densho-468-123)
Letter confirming acceptance to University of Nebraska with estimate of expenses and confirmation of contact in Lincoln who will help Ishikawa find employment

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Educational Leave paperwork (ddr-densho-468-127)
Certification and other paperwork authorizing Joseph Ishikawa to leave the Granada Relocation Area to attend school at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE.

Narrator Joe Ishikawa
Nisei male. Born July 29, 1919, in Los Angeles, California. Went to live in Japan as a college student, returning just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado, before leaving to attend the University of Nebraska. Worked as a curator in the …

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Joe Ishikawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-205)
Nisei male. Born July 29, 1919, in Los Angeles, California. Went to live in Japan as a college student, returning just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado, before leaving to attend the University of Nebraska. Worked as a curator in the …

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Joseph Ishikawa Collection (ddr-densho-468)
The Joseph Ishikawa collection, c.1942-2012, consists of the personal papers of Joseph Bunichi Ishikawa. Contained are unfinished drafts of stories and poems, correspondence, photograph albums, newspaper clippings, essays, diary entries, and other documents pertaining to Ishikawa’s life before, during, and after World War II. Also included are correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Ishikawa’s work on …

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Tri-county irrigation project in south central Nebraska (ddr-csujad-55-97)
Report on the tri-county irrigation project in south central Nebraska including a description of the location, project organization, soils, climate, transportation, markets, housing, schools and churches, and community. Report also includes a description of the types of offers used when appealing to and recruiting incarceree farmers including year-round farm labor, share cropping, co-partnerships, and profit sharing. …

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Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Ilona Imamura (ddr-densho-356-307)
Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Ilona Imamura. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

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Letter from Lloyd Marti to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-199)
Letter of confirmation that Mayor Marti received Ishikawa's letter regarding the integration of the municipal swimming pool.

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Daily Nebraskan: "Dean Thompson Offers No Comment Regarding Big Six Race Controversy" (ddr-densho-468-183)
Article regarding integration of Big Six athletics

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Frank Marsh (ddr-densho-468-201)
Thank you for service to Nebraskans for Norman Thomas

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Rev. Arthur L. Miller (ddr-densho-468-195)
Letter describing situation with municipal swimming pool segregation

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Letter from RW Goss to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-122)
Confirmation of receipt of letter dated Sept. 12 with enclosure of copy of Goss's letter from September 17. Notice that October 3 is last day to register for graduate college.

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Paul Shulbach (ddr-densho-468-200)
Thank you on behalf of Nebraskans for Norman Thomas for interviewing Norman Thomas (undated)

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Letter to the Editor of the Lincoln Star from Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-216)
Praise to Metro Goldwyn Mayer for their production of The Search

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Letter from David Fleming, John O'Hare, Wayne Wheeler, and Joseph Ishikawa to Ray McConnell Jr. (ddr-densho-468-228)
Discussion of shortcomings of two-party system and necessity of Socialist Party.

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Letter from Claude Canaday to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-226)
Canady politely declines the invitation to run for office

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Letter from RW Goss to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-116)
Requirements for admission of Japanese students

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Claude Canaday (ddr-densho-468-225)
Invitation to run for office on Nebraskans for Norman Thomas ticket

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Lincoln Star: "Muny Pool Policy On Negroes Hit" (ddr-densho-468-198)
Newspaper article describing efforts by Ishikawa (misidentified as Filipino) et al to desegregate Lincoln, NE, municipal swimming pool

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Hank (ddr-densho-468-208)
Letter describing unsuccessful attempt to add Norman Thomas to Nebraskan ballot. Request for updates from California. Also includes a name to add to Hank's mailing list. Handwritten comment on author's "prairie fever."

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Press release draft for Nebraskans for Norman Thomas (ddr-densho-468-229)
Draft of a press release for the Nebraskans for Norman Thomas convention on August 22, 1948, with handwritten notes

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to John "Johnny" Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-143)
Letter with updates on New Year's weekend 1942-1943

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Shirley (ddr-densho-468-189)
Letter explaining resignation in protest of swimming pool segregation

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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Willis Hanson (ddr-densho-468-128)
Two drafts of letter to Willis Hanson, the leave officer at Granada, explaining Ishikawa's leave for the University of Nebraska.