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Mako Nakagawa Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-66-34)
Genesis of multicultural education, from origami lessons to discussions on racism
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-66-13)
Life in Crystal City: a healthy improvement over Minidoka concentration camp
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-66-5)
Prewar family life; work, gambling, and bootlegging
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-66-37)
Reflections on the incarceration: learning from injustice and oppression
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-66-18)
Meeting German nationals and Japnese Latin Americans at Crystal City
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-66-36)
The importance of diversity programs in education
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-66-1)
Father's background: eking out a living in an Alaskan cannery
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-66-7)
A child's memories of the FBI pick-up and detention of father
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-66-35)
Developing the Multicultural Heritage Program, "Rainbow," and bringing it into the Seattle Public Schools
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-66-23)
Issues of racism and identity, learning a meaningful poem in school
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-66-15)
Parents' respect for the United States and loyalty to Japan
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-66-21)
Parents' struggles to reestablish their lives and find work
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-66-33)
Winning redress for the Seattle School District clerks
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-66-6)
FBI search of family home, men running their hands through the rice
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Mako Nakagawa Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-66-17)
Father's feelings of being torn between two countries
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Seattle School District redress supporters (ddr-densho-10-169)
Caption on reverse: "Seattle School Dist. school clerks. Front row: L-R: Alice Kawanishi, Mako Nakagawa, past Seattle JACL President, Cherry Kinoshita, Wash. Coalition on Redress Co-Chair. Back row: L-R: Ai (Takizawa) Koshi, T.J. Vassar, Seattle School Bd, May (Daty) Namba, Toyo (Okuda) Cary."
Narrator Mako Nakagawa
Nisei female. Born February 1, 1937, in Seattle, Washington. Spent prewar childhood in Seattle. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington; Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho; and Crystal City internment camp, Texas. In the postwar years, became a teacher, principal, and multicultural specialist for Washington State's Superintendent of the Office of Public Instruction. Developed and directed the …