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Daily Nebraskan: "Students Criticize Thompson's Letter" (ddr-densho-468-185)
Article responding to Dean Thompson's letter on April 25, 1946. Ishikawa's response notes that, while legislation cannot eradicate prejudice, it can prevent the manifestations of prejudice.
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Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Marguerite Davis (ddr-densho-468-204)
Thank you on behalf of Nebraskans for Norman Thomas for news coverage
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Interview with Zora Tennant and Jimmy Lewis (ddr-densho-468-190)
Description of interview [note: not a transcript] regarding Ishikawa's efforts to desegregate municipal swimming pool
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Interview with Homer Kyle (ddr-densho-468-191)
Description of interview [note: not a transcript] regarding Ishikawa's efforts to desegregate municipal swimming pool, including discussion of a legal challenge. Second note describes Kyle's follow-up on July 22, 1946
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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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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. …