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1136 items
1136 items
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. IV No. 17 (November 3, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-181)
Selected article titles: "Propose Boost in Local Postage Charges" (p. 1), "Views on Japanese Minority Problems in Legion Magazine" (p. 1), "2000 in Tulelake Under Surveillance in Form Sit-down" (p. 1), "Deny Nisei Entrance Into Public School" (p. 2), "Gives Set-up at Tulelake Project" (p. 2), "Attempt Eviction of Nisei Couple" (p. 3), "Remind Residents of …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. 5 No. 4 (January 15, 1944) (ddr-densho-125-202)
Selected article titles: "Public Works Explains Difficulty in Giving Maintenance, Repair Service" (p. 1), "Council Announces College Clearances" (p. 1), "Paroled Aliens Eligible for Leaves" (p. 1), "Newspaper Quotes From Free Press" (p. 1), "Chicago War Plant Offers Jobs to Evacuees on Seasonal Basis" (p. 1), "Roosevelt Proposes Domestic Program" (p. 2), "Articles on Nisei Appears …
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Rohwer Outpost Vol. II No. 31 (April 17, 1943) (ddr-densho-143-53)
Selected article titles: "General DeWitt Opposes the Return of California 'Japs'" (p. 1), "Obtain Photos for Leaves in Near Future" (p. 1), "Relocation Series Start" (p. 1), "Public Health is Excellent" (p. 2), "Kessler Here to Aid Aliens" (p. 3), "Resident Views Farming Opportunities in Mich." (p. 3), "Japanese Food Orders Stopped" (p. 3), "Editorial: Is …
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Granada Pioneer Vol. III No. 91 (September 15, 1945) (ddr-densho-147-300)
Selected article titles: "Farm in Final Clean-up Stage" (p. 1), "May Hire Nisei in Center Civil Service Posts" (p. 3), "Philippines Nisei GI's Rap Hearst Paper Attitude" (p. 5), "Official Text: Public Proclamation No. 24" (p. 7), "Parolees Must Abide by Specific Regulations" (p. 7), "Movement to Japan to Start" (p. 9), "Protest Repatriation of Japanese …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 18 No. 11 (March 18, 1944) (ddr-pc-16-12)
Selected article titles: "Rep. Eberharter Challenges Dies Report on Tule Lake" (p. 1), "Announce Reopening of Hawaii Draft" (p. 1), "Heroism of Nisei Soldiers Now In Italy Has Good Effect on Public Opinion, Says Captain" (p. 2), "Hold Hearings For Residents of Tule Lake" (p. 3), "Federal District Court Rules Gen. DeWitt Had No Right to …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 24 No. 20 (May 24, 1947) (ddr-pc-19-21)
Selected article titles: "Public Hearings Will Open This Week in Congress on Evacuation Claims Measure" (p. 1), "California Assembly Votes To Retain Land Law Fund" (p. 1), "Two Evacuees File Suit For Property Sold by U.S. Agency" (p. 1), "Importance of Nisei Soldiers Stressed at MISLS Ceremony" (p. 7), "Canadian Senate Committee Stages Heated Debate Over …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 31 No. 22 (December 2, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-48)
Selected article titles: "Early House Vote Seen On Issei Citizenship Bill. Judiciary Committee Urges Passage of Legislation For Equality in Naturalization" (p. 1), "No Need for Special Nisei Aid Program Seen in Coast Floods" (p. 2), "Nisei, Peruvians, DPs Attend New Kind of Public School. New Techniques Developed for Seabrook Children" (p. 2), "Resettlement Broadened Nisei …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 64, No. 19 (May 12, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-20)
Selected article titles: "JACL only ethnic group called in Ill. Housing study" (p. 1), "Venice-Culver worried PSW confab to success" (p. 1), "Gardeners have tree contractor bill amended" (p. 1), "Japan-America society in Washington elects its first Nisei president" (p. 1), "Maryland governor picks Nisei to county board of education" (p. 1), "Nisei tax cases in …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 23 (December 8, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-50)
Selected article titles: "Anti-Alien Ban in Public Jobs Invalid: Santa Barbara Judge Upsets 52-Year-Old Law" (p. 1), "'What Now--JACL?' Challenge Beckons All-Out Effort to Help Disadvantaged" (p. 1), "Mexican American Study Project: Unintentional discrimination affects hiring of manual labor" (p. 3), "UCLA ethnic tally announced" (p. 3), "Issei emphasis on education pays off for Nisei: Shimasaki" …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 23 (December 6, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-49)
Selected article titles: "Public interest still high on WRA camps" (p. 1), "S.I. Hayakawa heads strife-torn San Francisco State College" (p. 1), "Elementary school with over 50 pct. Enrollment of Oriental pupils big factor in high reading factor" (p. 1), "Poor Peoples Theater to stage play based on Dr. King's civil rights dream" (p. 2), "Oriental …
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May Ohmura Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-454)
Nisei female. Born May 13, 1922, in Chico, California. Grew up in Chico, where parents ran a produce store. Was in college when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and was removed with her family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend school in Syracuse, New York, and become a public health nurse. Later …
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Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting, March 31, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-545)
Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting. Includes reports from Public Relations Committee, Agriculture Committee, and Labor Committee and discussion on article in Rocky Shimpo and camp news. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0547
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Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting, June 27, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-580)
Minutes from the Heart Mountain Community Council meeting. Includes discussion on social welfare, block manger positions, rest home, public hearing, and reports from the Food Committee and Education Committee. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0582
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Whittier Public Library First Friends Church Photographs and Records (ddr-csujad-57)
The collection consists of images and documents from its establishment in 1887 to the mid-20th century. Also included are images and documents of two missions of Whittier's First Friends Church: the Kotzebue Friends Church, in Kotzebue, Alaska; and the Friends Japanese Church in Norwalk, formerly located near the intersection of Orange Street and Rosecrans Avenue.
Narrator Chizuko Norton
Nisei female. Born July 3, 1924, in Seattle, Washington. Spent prewar childhood in Japan; Bellevue, Washington; and Kirkland, Washington. Incarcerated at Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Returned to Seattle after the war, obtained master's degree from the University of Washington in the field of social work. Founded Seattle's first alternative school …
Narrator Elaine Ishikawa Hayes
Nisei female. Born June 30, 1923, in Willows, California. Grew up in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, was removed to the Sacramento Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to attend college in Wisconsin, and later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Post-World War II, was active in …
Narrator Frank H. Hirata
Kibei-Nisei male. Born November 19, 1925, in Spokane, Washington. At the age of ten, went to Japan with grandfather. During World War II, was conscripted into the Japanese army, and was still in training when the war ended. After the war, continued education, graduating from Kyoto University with a law degree. Got married in 1957 and …
Narrator David Sakura
Sansei male. Born March 28, 1936, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Eatonville, Washington, where father worked for a lumber company. During World War II, removed with family to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Father served in the U.S. Army during the war. After leaving camp, lived in public housing …
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Preserving California's Japantowns Collection (ddr-densho-1010)
This collection consists of interviews conducted in partnership with Preserving California's Japantowns, a project of California Japanese American Community Leadership Council (CJACLC), dedicated to documenting historic resources from pre-World War II Japantowns.For more information about the project, please visit www.californiajapantowns.org.Funding for these interviews was provided by a grant from the California State Library through …
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Letter from Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, to Nurse Mary F. Clark, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, February 27, 1942 (ddr-csujad-55-1334)
Correspondence from Thomas Parran to Mary Clark regarding Clarks travel authorization from Lexington, Kentucky to Fort Missoula, Montana. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947" page 5. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1336
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Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-84-25)
Conditions in Puyallup: getting chicken pox, army looks for contraband in a chocolate cake brought by visitors
References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.
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Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-84-26)
Attitude toward violation of rights, "There was nothing we could do about it because they had the guns"
References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.
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Tsuguo "Ike" Ikeda Interview II Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-124-8)
Willingness to participate in public demonstrations during the Civil Rights movement: "I felt that I wasn't behaving according to the norm among other fellow Niseis"
As a teenager prior to World War II, began keeping scrapbooks with newspaper articles and memorabilia, a lifetime habit.
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Punishable criminal offenses (ddr-csujad-55-743)
List of criminal offenses punishable by the Judicial Commission at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes the following offenses with definitions: assault, assault and battery, aggravated assault and battery, riot, unlawful assembly, gambling, gambling house, operating a confidence game, carrying concealed weapons, abduction, theft, embezzlement, fraud, forgery, receiving stolen property, extortion, disorderly conduct, reckless driving, malicious mischief, …
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Criminal code (ddr-csujad-55-977)
List of criminal offenses punishable by the Judicial Commission at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes the following offenses with definitions: assault, assault and battery, aggravated assault and battery, riot, unlawful assembly, gambling, gambling house, operating a confidence game, carrying concealed weapons, abduction, theft, embezzlement, fraud, forgery, receiving stolen property, extortion, disorderly conduct, reckless driving, malicious mischief, …