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Floyd Shimomura Interview (ddr-densho-1000-466)
Sansei male. Born March 13, 1948, in Winters, California. Grew up in the Winters area where parents worked on a farm they had run before World War II, when they were incarcerated at the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Graduated from UC Davis School of Law, and worked in various capacities for the State of California. Elected …
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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings (ddr-densho-346-161)
Caption in album: "Ron Ikejiri-Floyd Shimomura-Margaret Chao."
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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings (ddr-densho-346-162)
Caption in album: "Ron Ikejiri-Floyd Shimomura-Margaret Chao."
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Letter from Harry Gamble to Floyd D. Shimomura (ddr-densho-345-74)
Harry Gamble writes to Floyd Shimomura about the National Park Service making Tule Lake concentration camp a National Historic Landmark site.
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-466-18)
Becoming president of National Japanese American Citizens League
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-466-3)
Grandparents' arranged marriage and running a boarding house
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-466-1)
Growing up on a ranch where family had worked before World War II
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-466-9)
Growing up in Winters, California: a fire on VJ Day
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-466-20)
An important meeting at the White House with President Ronald Reagan
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-466-11)
Studying in Japan during college years: a time of political unrest both in U.S. and Japan
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-466-17)
Being part of the decision to go down the "commission road" during the redress movement
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-466-16)
The early days of redress and feelings about it within the Japanese American Citizens League
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-466-7)
Family friends run the farm in Winters during the war
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-466-15)
Involvement in discussions of early approaches to redress
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-466-10)
Finding an autobiography written while in the eighth grade
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-466-4)
Grandparents' family history: finding Japanese address on a tombstone
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-466-19)
Involvement in the movement for compensation for Japanese American state workers terminated during World War II
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-466-13)
Getting involved in the Japanese American Citizens League
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-466-14)
Moving up in the Japanese American Citizens League as the redress movement was starting
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-466-5)
Mother's family background, memories of maternal grandmother
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Floyd Shimomura Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-466-2)
Grandfather's family background: working in the U.S. as a sharecropper
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