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vh Fred Hirasuna Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-21-5)

Building support for the redress movement in the Japanese American community, and differences between efforts of the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations and Japanese American Citizens League

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School …

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vh Susan Hayase Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-13-7)

Relationship between the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee and the Japanese American Citizens League during Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and …

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vh Susan Hayase Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-13-6)

Getting people to testify at the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings; death of the "quiet American" stereotype, and legacy of the redress movement

This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 91 (March 10, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-175)

Selected article titles: "Hostel Will Take Resettlers to House Evacuees Job Seeking in East: Public Meeting Tonight to Present Project" (p. 1), "Minidoka Leads 5 Camps in Army Volunteers" (p. 1), "Granada Red Cross Drive" (p. 1), "6608 to be Used For Alien Registration" (p. 1), "Friends Group Advises All Citizens to Register" (p. 1), "Thurs. …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 17 (April 9, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-198)

Selected article titles: "Planting Of 10,000 Trees Is to Start" (p. 1), "April 17 is Declared Project Cleanup Day: To Be Excused From Work" (p. 1), "Baggage Inspection For Leaving Project" (p. 1), "YPCC Pictures For Leavers" (p. 1), "Utah Sugars Co. Seeks Workers" (p. 1), "Etiquette is Topic of Class" (p. 1), "Colony Gets 16 …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 19 (November 9, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-45)

Selected article titles: "Prop. 13 wins by 2-1 margin. Calif. Alien Land Law repealed, but number of 'nays' significant" (p. 1), "JACL, Nisei urged to widen fight in civil rights field by NCAAP official" (p. 1), "Major share of postwar high status of Nisei-Issei goes to JACL, ADL told" (p. 1), "Hayakawa retains stand Nisei social …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 13 (May 22, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-40)

Selected article titles: "Nation's Press Misleading On Center's Closing Time" (p. 1), "Ousted Nisei Report Back To Work For Candy Firm" (p. 1), "WRA Centers Termed Undesirable; Myer Foresees 'Eventual Closing'" (p. 1), "Myer Stresses Necessity of Active Participation in Agricultural Program" (p. 1), "Highest Court Upholds Right of U.S. Born" (p. 1), "Holland Teams Absorption …

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img Adolf Hitler seated in a room with his advisors, Joseph Goebbels to his left (ddr-njpa-1-651)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Chancellor Hitler Also Has 'One Bowl, One Meal' Dinner - Raises Funds for the Winter Relief Fund for German Unemployed - (Berlin) Rengo. All the German people have been requested to have a 'one bowl, one meal' Sunday dinner in which they spend under 50 pfennig and donate the money saved on …

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XX, No. 5, May 1983 (ddr-sjacl-1-321)

Newsletter covering the following topics: Scholarship Awardees: Tamesa-Mary Ishii and Jeff Sakuma ($500); Andrews-Karen Kaminishi ($400); CWRIC report, ?Personal Justice Denied,? available for the public, 467 pages long; interesting exchange about Seattle representation at a Tri-District meeting in Reno that also hosted a meeting with the NCRR and Washington Coalition for Redress/Reparations and the National JACL …

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Narrator Joseph Frisino

Male of Italian and Irish descent. Born 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland. Grew up in the countryside outside of Baltimore with his parents, younger sister, and maternal grandmother. Raised Catholic, he attended public schools until graduating in 1936 at age seventeen. Began working for the Baltimore News Post in 1937 until the draft of 1940 when he …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 10 (July 28, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-5)

Selected article titles: "Colony Census Midnight Friday" (p. 1), "More Men Than Women Here" (p. 1), "1000 Workers Fail to Call for Tags" (p. 1), "Notary Public Here Tuesday 7 to 8 P.M." (p. 1), "Tough Operation Claimed Success" (p. 1), "No Overtime Paid" (p. 1), "Tule Lake is Bird's Paradise: Farmer's Life. It's Beautiful Outside, …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 43, No. 23 (December 7, 1956) (ddr-pc-28-49)

Selected article titles: "FBI chief tells personal stand on evacuation" (p. 1), "Saturday evening post editorial fears strong Nisei tie with Japan" (p. 1), "Delegate-elect Burns names Nisei to be administrative ass't in D.C." (p. 1), "Evacuation claims award procedure explained by gov't" (p. 1), "100th Infantry veterans urge immediate statehood for Hawaii" (p. 2), "Telling …

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doc Letter from Earl Warren, Governor of California, to Frank Herron Smith May 29, 1945 (ddr-csujad-21-5)

Response to Smith's letter detailing incidents against Japanese Americans returning to California informs Smith that law enforcement is a local responsibility, and that Warren has "personally urged every Mayor and every principal law enforcement officer in the state to support the government and do his full duty in this situation." Warren states that he is aware …

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doc Suggestions for resolutions about evacuees of Japanese ancestry (ddr-csujad-18-4)

Presents arguments and supporting "data" to assert that the claim that "America is a white man's country" is "un-American"; that the Government must make a greater effort to supply housing and financial aid for people who are resettling; that those opposing resettlement are "making a mockery of our war aim to ensure justice and freedom"; and …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 5 (September 29, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-5)

Selected article titles: "Scarcity of Trucks Holds Stored Goods" (p. 1), "Rehousing Program Revised Under Huycke Supervision" (p. 1), "Colonists Will Vote Tonight" (p. 1), "Dining Hall Workers First to Pick Labor Delegates" (p. 1), "Co-op Drives For Membership" (p. 2), "55 Compete in Giant Go Tournament" (p. 2), "Public Works Jobs Open But Others Filled" …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 2 (September 18, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-2)

Selected article titles: "80 Nisei Farm Workers Used at Twin Falls" (p. 1), "Co-op on Non Profit Basis: Directors to be Elected" (p. 1), "Huge Farm Area in Project Plan" (p. 1), "Plentiful Supply of Coal Assured Colonists Here" (p. 1), "Editorial: A Story in the Making" (p. 2), "Repatriation Still Possible Applications Being Taken" (p. …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 9 (October 14, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-8)

Selected article titles: "Myer Visit Delayed: to Arrive Fri." (p. 1), "Distant States Send in Requests for Hunt Workers" (p. 1), "Hunt Shown First 'Movies' This Week" (p. 1), "WRA Sends Official to Utah to Investigate Hunt's Coal Shipments Delay" (p. 1), "Editorial: Unfair to Victory..." (p. 2), "Co-op Delegates Meet Thursday to Launch Plans" (p. …

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doc Granada community analysis report, #2 (ddr-csujad-55-788)

Report on "resettlement" from Granada incarceration camp. Includes: Are you interested in leaving the Center?; Why are you hesitant about resettlement? (including subsections on uncertainty of public sentiment, lack of money, lack of information, lack of confidence in making a reasonably satisfactory living, lack of proper living quarters, family ties and responsibilities, lack of confidence in …

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doc Article regarding Seisensui Ogiwara (ddr-njpa-4-1965)

Article [translation]: "Mr. Seisensui Ogiwara is the authority of New Trend Haiku and the sponsor of the magazine 'Soun.' He was attracted to the nature and scenery of Hawaii. He will have a chance to come to Hawaii on June 17th. He will stay here for two weeks. The Hawaii Haiku Club invited the representatives of …

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Collection Emi Kuboyama, Office of Redress Administration (ORA) Oral History Project (ddr-densho-1020)

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans with Executive Order 9066. Forty-six years later, Congress sought to belatedly address this injustice with the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which established a process of redress for those harmed by 9066. Housed within the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the …

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img Clipping regarding Wang Jingwei (ddr-njpa-1-1100)

Caption on front [translation]: "Person of the Day: Wang Jingwei. Wang Jingwei boldly threw away his high position as deputy chairman of the the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) to move to Hanoi to achieve peace and save his homeland. He made his first public declaration at the end of last year and has, since that day, …

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doc Supplementary statement by Mr. D. S. Myer before the Sub-Committee of the Military Affairs, Committee of the U. S. Senate (ddr-csujad-48-102)

Report by Dillon Myer regarding the history and activities of the War Relocation Authority and the "relocation program." Includes a memorandum of understanding between the WRA and the War Department, description of problems with the "evacuation program," evacuation of Hawaii, administrative policies on housing, food, education, medical care, employment, public works, community welfare, community enterprises, community …

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doc Report of Teacher Planning Committee: suggested topics for faculty study groups (ddr-csujad-48-104)

A report by the Teacher Planning Committee on Potential Subject for Faculty Study Groups. Section headings include: (1) School philosophy; (2) Problems peculiar to the Japanese at Manzanar; (3) Curriculum; (4) Extra-curricular activities; (5) Disciplinary problems; (6) School rules, regulations and procedures; (7) Teaching improvement for regular and student teachers; (8) Mental hygiene, public relations and …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. II No. 8 (January 27, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-25)

Selected article titles: "Ex-Senator Will Speak Here Friday" (p. 1), "Masaoka Voices Plea For Unity. Outlines JACL's Fight For Nisei" (p. 1), "Coast Cities in Winter's Grip; Storm Hits Seattle. Reported Worst in Two Decades" (p. 1), "Share-croppers Still Recruited" (p. 1), "Editorial: For Unity -- Now!" (p. 2), "Need of Unity Stressed in Talk" (p. …

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doc Weekly Press Review No. 16 (ddr-densho-156-328)

Original summary excerpt: From a public relations standpoint, the food situation at Heart Mountain was a major press issue of the week. Seven articles by Jack Carberry in the Denver Post attacked WRA's administration of the project. Appealing to the emotions of readers recently aroused by the Tokyo executions, these articles were notable for half truths, …

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