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Description of Kiyoshi Okamoto, the founder of the Fair Play Committee
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …
An act of defiance: threatening to walk out of camp
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, …
Description of trial: found guilty and sent to jail
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead …
Selected article titles: "25th anniversary of Evacuation to be observed by Watsonville" (p. 1), "JACL hails Administration Civil Rights bill; Forced from Judiciary Committee by one vote" (p. 1), "Two JACL Youth Delegates Inspired by Challenges Forged by Democracy" (p. 2), "Mink sponsors Bill to aid Longshoremen" (p. 3), "Urban housing crisis compared with experiences of …
Selected article titles: "Justice Dept. admits 'mistake' of evacuation. Remarks made at ceremony ending administrative program for renunciants" (p. 1), "Lack of civil rights in U.S. seen as threat to world peace" (p. 1), "Tule Lake WRA camp on the block for sale to bidder" (p. 1), "Mas Yamashita first Idaho Nisei named to Military Academy" …
Selected article titles: "Pocatello JACL alerts headline writer in Idaho on use of "Jap" (p. 1), "Nisei files to block deportation order issued 8 years ago" (p. 1), "16 states have specialized agencies to enforce anti-minority discrimination laws" (p. 3).
Selected article titles: "Sen. Kuchel meets Bay Area JACLers, community leaders" (p. 1), "Population Study of Midwest Japanese Due" (p. 1), "Three Television Networks in All-Out Effort to Avoid Offending Minorities in Songs, Some Banned, Changed" (p. 1), "Eisenhower Has Bill OK'd by Congress Permitting Use of Mongolian Labor" (p. 1), "Magnuson urges claims bill passage" …
Selected article titles: "Racial Relocation to ease tension?" (p. 1), "Anti-Nisei housing bias mooted by Utah civil righters" (p. 1), "50 of Calif.'s 80 Assemblymen Co-Author FEPC" (p. 1), "Univ. of Chicago Issei artist retires after 50-year association with college" (p. 1), "Columnist in L.A. Times comments on evacuation, hopes Sansei have as much diligence for …
Inscription on front: Tenth Anniversary Ball of SF JACL, October 28, 1938. Names of individuals in photo on back including Henri Takahashi, Tomoye Nozawa, National President Walter Tsukamoto, Chapter President Saburo Kido
Selected article titles: "Residents to Name Charter Delegates" (p. 1), "Heart Mountain Inspires Name for New Project Newspaper" (p. 1), "Griffin Warns Reckless Drivers" (p. 1), "First Copies Sent Roosevelt, Myer" (p. 1), "Two Cases Tried by Heart Mountain Court" (p. 2), "Residents Warned of Bogus Wardens" (p. 2), "USO Plans for Center Under Way" (p. …
Including photos of businesses and homes, family portraits, state maps. Section of full and partial page advertisements for businesses including photos and proprietors between pages 272 and 273.