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1188 items
Narrator Martha Watanabe
Born in Chicago, Illinois. During the Redress Movement, worked for the Department of Justice's Office of Redress Administration (ORA), which was established to identify and administer reparations payments to eligible individuals. Worked as an Administrator with the ORA from 1989 to 1991. After leaving the ORA, worked with the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, the Office …
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Weekly Press Review No. 18 (ddr-densho-156-330)
Original summary excerpt: The tendency of editors generally to select those wire service dispatches which would be likely to generate hostile public attitudes was particularly evident this week, which can be considered one of the worst for WRA from a press relations standpoint since the Press Review was started. Forty-three papers printed an AP wire in …
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An Oral History with J.S. Kishiyama and Y. Kishiyama (ddr-csujad-29-3)
Reflections of an elderly Orange County, California couple on their experiences in America. He recounts his years as an immigrant; she discusses her family background, makeup of Japanese-American community, and rural living. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton; interview conducted by Pat Morgan. …
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An oral history with Lillian Matsumoto and Taeko Nagayama (ddr-csujad-30-14)
An oral interview with Lillian Matsumoto and Taeko Nagayama, incarcerees at the Children's Village orphanage. The interview was conducted for the Children's Village at the Manzanar Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_cvm_0132. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2494.2_T01
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An oral history with Lillian Matsumoto and Taeko Nagayama (ddr-csujad-30-13)
An oral interview with Lillian Matsumoto and Taeko Nagayama, incarcerees at the Children's Village orphanage. The interview was conducted for the Children's Village at the Manzanar Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_cvm_0130. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2494.1_T01
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Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-84-36)
Christmas at Minidoka, sagebrush candles and a tumbleweed Christmas tree
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 40 (ddr-densho-1000-84-40)
Earning money outside camp and using it to purchase items
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 33 (ddr-densho-1000-84-33)
Discussion of strained relationships between Nisei and Kibei in Minidoka
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 II Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-87-17)
Husband returns to medical practice, delivers postwar baby boom babies
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 II Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-87-20)
Japanese Resettlement Committee's efforts to assist returning Japanese with housing
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 II Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-87-21)
The Japanese Resettlement Committee's help with employment for Japanese Americans
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 II Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-87-15)
Finding a home among friendly neighbors after returning to Seattle
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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Mineo Osumi meeting with Mongolian delegates (ddr-njpa-4-1781)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "Mongol representatives visit Minister of the Navy Osumi. The representatives of the Mongols visited Osumi at the Ministry of the Navy building on October 26th. Saito, Chief of the Public Safety Commission of Manshu, lead eleven other delegates. They visited the Minister of the Navy's secretariat on October 7th."
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 39 No. 6 (August 6, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-32)
Selected article titles: "Public hearings on west coast for Hillings amendment on evacuation claims planned" (p. 1), "Another Exchange club challenges national 'whites only' policy" (p. 1), "Looking at the Negro press" (p. 2), "Here's complete text of letter rapping discrimination in Exchange Club; Visalia group suspended as a result" (p. 7).
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Poston Chronicle Vol. XVIII No. 17 (April 20, 1944) (ddr-densho-145-495)
Selected article titles: "Evacuees Find Little Discrimination in Cleveland" (p. 1), "Judicial Commission Sentence Gamblers at Court Friday" (p. 1), "Center-Wide Waste Paper Drive to Start this Saturday" (p. 1), "Tampering with Fire Alarm Boxes Banned" (p. 2), "Unit III Swimming Pool is Not Officially Opened to the Public" (p. 3).
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Camp Howze (ddr-csujad-55-2186)
Booklet on Camp Howze in Texas. Covers the development of the camp, amenities, public telephone service, and telephone rates from Camp Howze. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2288
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Students reciting Pledge of Allegiance (ddr-densho-151-153)
Original caption: San Francisco, California. Flag of allegiance pledge at Raphael Weill Public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets. Children in families of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents and will be housed for the duration in War Relocation Authority centers where facilities will be provided for them to continue their education.
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Schoolchildren with American flag (ddr-densho-151-53)
Original WRA caption: San Francisco, California. Flag of allegiance pledge at Raphael Weill Public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets. Children in families of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents and will be housed for the duration in War Relocation Authority centers where facilities will be provided for them to continue their education.
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Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 39, No. 9, September 2002 (ddr-sjacl-1-504)
Newsletter covering the following topics: Report on Aki Kurose School Beautification Day, 50+ people help out; Seattle JACL will collaborate with Hate Free Zone and 50 other groups, in ?Justice for All; The Aftermath of September 11th.? A public hearing to promote awareness of how 9/11 affected civil rights and civil liberties.
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Mathilde Ludendorff and Erich Ludendorff walking together (ddr-njpa-1-1220)
Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Tutzing, Germany). The 70th birthday celebration for Imperial Germany's brave general Ludendorff was held in grand fashion, influenced by the militaristic atmosphere in the country since the recent declaration of rearmament, with all the public giving their passionate congratulations. Photograph: General Ludendorff and his wife on his 70th birthday."
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Lester S. Roscoe arriving in Hawai'i (ddr-njpa-1-1688)
Caption on reverse: "Insurance official arrives: Lester S. Roscoe, director of field training for the Occidental Life Insurance Company of California, arrived Sunday evening via United Air Lines for a three weeks' stay in Honolulu. During that time he will conduct a public insurance sales clinic in conjunction with Security Insurance Agency, Ltd."
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 …
Narrator Nancy Kyoko Oda
Sansei female. Born May 20, 1945, at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Shortly after birth, parents returned to the Los Angeles, California, area, where they had been living before World War II. Grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, and was involved in judo along with father, who was a judo instructor. …
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Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-84-22)
Seattle's health department refuses to provide typhoid inoculations to Japanese Americans
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 5 (ddr-densho-1000-84-5)
Father starts the New Washington Oyster Co. in Willapa Bay, Washington
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.