181 items
181 items
Narrator Maurice H. Yamasato
Nisei male. Born June 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru. Parents had originally immigrated to Peru from Okinawa, Japan. During World War II, removed with family to Crystal City internment camp, Texas. After leaving Crystal City, moved to Kauai, Hawaii. Established a successful career as an architect.
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 13 (March 30, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-13)
Selected article titles: "Eleventh-Hour Releases Save 102 Persons from Internment In Crystal City Camp in Texas" (p. 1), "'Third Evacuation' Under Way For California Evacuees. Winona Project Residents Evicted as Others Face Loss Of Emergency Shelter" (p. 1), "Immigration Service Travel Restrictions on Nisei, Other Oriental Americans Protested" (p. 3), "Army Will Review Cases Of Nisei …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 38 No. 2 (January 8, 1954) (ddr-pc-26-2)
Selected article titles: "Hawaii statehood leads CL 10-pt. program" (p. 1), "Refugee Relief Act forms available soon, citizens wanting to bring Japanese must fill" (p. 1), "Pioneer rice grower of Texas revisists Japan, hopes we don't stumble in future dealings" (p. 2), "Masaoka recalls days when only 5 Nisei were in U.S. civil service before war" …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 18 (October 30, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-44)
Selected article titles: "Orange County JACL challenged to think future in terms of urban chapter at 25th anniversary" (p. 1), "Rep. Inouye wary of farm parity plan, abuses fantastic" (p. 1), "40 and 8 'white' membership clause reported dropped" (p. 3), Weightlifter Tommy Kono bedazzled by beauty of Polish women, brings home another 165-lb. title; to …
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Daily Press Review, Vol. VI, No. 11 (ddr-densho-156-275)
Article titles: "Helped Chinese Victims, Now Aids Japanese Here"; "Passengers From Gripsholm Still Being Investigated"; "Praises War Work of Italian Women"; "All But One of Bundists Guilty"; "Roundup of Aliens"; "...Freeing of 600,000 Italians From Ban Leaves Only Germans and Japanese"; "Editorial: 'Wrong Time'"; "Editorial: 'Loyalty Rewarded'"; "Story of Treatment in Jap Prison"; "Letters to Editor"; …
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Mako Nakagawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-66)
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 …
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Mary T. Yoshida Interview (ddr-densho-1014-9)
Nisei female. Born 1923 in Central Point, Oregon. While in elementary school, sent to live with a foster family in Medford, Oregon. Was attending college when World War II broke out, and was removed to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a housegirl. Finished college at Texas …
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Letter from S.F. Oliver, (Surg) UEPES, Medical Officer in Charge to Mr. Elwood, Liaison Division, Crystal City, Texas, August 20, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-1395)
Correspondence from S. F. Oliver, Medical Officer in Charge, to Larry Elmwood, Liaison Office, regarding a request for preferential medical treatment for the Schnellbach family. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 60. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1397
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 23 No. 14 (October 12, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-41)
Selected article titles: "Northern California ACLU Says Government Still Holding 631 Persons at Texas Camp" (p. 1), "Protest Restrictive Covenants At West Los Angeles Meeting. Civil Rights Groups Support Right of Japanese American Family to Occupy New Home" (p. 1), "500 Japanese Canadians Deported to Japan Aboard United States Army Vessel" (p. 2), "Federal Judge Raps …
Narrator Kitako Izumizaki
Nisei female. Born November 21, 1921, in Watsonville, California. Grew up in Watsonville, where family operated a truck farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Lived for a time in Texas while husband served in the military before eventually returning to Watsonville.
Narrator Mary Blocher Smeltzer
White female. Born in 1915 in Texas. Grew up in La Verne, California, where family was active with the Church of the Brethren. During World War II, lived in the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and worked as a teacher there. Along with husband, established a hostel in Chicago, Illinois, for Japanese Americans leaving the camps.
Narrator Mary Montoya
Female of Japanese and Mexican ancestry. Born 1916 in El Paso, Texas. Father was an Issei from Japan, and mother was from Mexico. Mary grew up in several cities in New Mexico. She was married and living in California when the war broke out, but was not identified as being of Japanese ancestry. Returned to Gallup, …
Narrator Hana Shepard
Nisei female. Grew up in Los Angeles, California, before World War II. During the war, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, so family could be reunited with father. Had several brothers who served in the U.S. military during World …
Narrator Mae Matsuzaki
Nisei female. Grew up in Los Angeles, California, before World War II. During the war, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, so family could be reunited with father. Had several brothers who served in the U.S. military during World …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 7 (January 23, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-97)
Selected article titles: "Woodworking Plant Started" (p. 1), "And the Rains Came" (p. 1), "WRA Field Office in Chicago Opens" (p. 1), "Nisei Soldiers Alarm Farmer" (p. 1), "Form Peace Group, Officials Named" (p. 1), "Peace and Order to be Maintained" (p. 1), "Plasterboard, Lumber Arrive" (p. 1), "Need Permit to Build Fires" (p. 1), "Traffic …
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Jimmy Naganuma Interview (ddr-densho-1000-480)
Born May 23, 1936, in Callao, Peru. Spent early childhood in Peru, where parents ran a laundry business, and father was a prominent community leader. During World War II, the FBI arrested Jimmy's father and the entire family was placed on a ship and sent to the Department of Justice camp at Crystal City, Texas. After …
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Kazumu Naganuma Interview (ddr-densho-1000-482)
Born July 28, 1942, in Callao, Peru. Before World War II, parents ran a laundry business and father was a prominent community leader. When Kazumu was still an infant, the FBI arrested his father and sent the entire family to the Department of Justice camp at Crystal City, Texas. After leaving camp, the family was not …
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Mas Okabe Interview (ddr-manz-1-131)
Nisei male. Born 1929 in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento, where parents operated a restaurant. During World War II, removed to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, in 1945, then went to Japan with family. Lived in Japan for a time …
Narrator Maria Sato
Nisei female. Born November 19, 1930, in Trujillo, Peru, where father ran a construction company. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested by the FBI and taken to the United States. The family joined him in Crystal City, Texas, then went to Japan after the war. Maria lived and worked in Japan until the …
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Indonesian men at the immigration detention facility in San Francisco waiting to be transported to the immigration detention facility in Crystal City, Texas (ddr-csujad-27-8)
Caption found with the image reads, "After several weeks of action in the U.S. District Court, and an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals and to the Supreme Court, an order was obtained for removal of the Indonesians from the immigration detention quarters, San Francisco, to the immigration Detention Facility at Crystal City, Texas. Here …
Narrator Kay Uno Kaneko
Nisei female. Born October 7, 1932, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles, age nine when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, so family could …
Narrator Minoru Tajii
Nisei male. Born February 23, 1924, in Brawley, California. Grew up in El Centro, California, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, was removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Family signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" and transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, then to Japan. Lived and worked in …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 19 (November 16, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-46)
Selected article titles: "Thirteen Japanese Americans Win Election to Territorial, County Offices in Hawaii" (p. 1), "Petition for Rehearing Filed In Oyama Land Law Case" (p. 1), "Report Renunciants in Texas Detention Camp Placed Under 'Relaxed Internment' Policy" (p. 2), "Home Town Barber Refuses To Cut Hair of Nisei Veteran" (p. 2), "Los Angeles Nisei Survives …
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The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 36 No. 1 (January 2, 1953) (ddr-pc-25-1)
Selected article titles: "Thorough revision of immigration act recommended to President" (p. 1), "Caution Issei filing for M'Carran law benefits" (p. 1), "Reconstruction of postwar Japan amazing; industry of people stands" (p. 2), "Watsonville veteran refused haircut sets to push court case" (p. 2), "Erasure of racial restrictions from nationality code would be meaningless if delayed …
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Pacific Citizen, Vol. 45, No. 11 (September 13, 1957) (ddr-pc-29-37)
Select article titles: "JACL hails signing of civil rights bill" (p. 1); "$1.3 Million claims measure signed by Ike" (p. 1); Senate Interior Committee urges Hawaii statehood without further delaying action" (p. 1); "Cut red tape for Nisei hero" 9p. 3); "Texas would bar Negro GIs wedded to German wives" (p. 3); "Spot survey by U.S. …