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doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Claude Canaday (ddr-densho-468-227)

Thank you for letter of August 17 with expression of disappointment, concerns that the loss of American prosperity may lead to totalitarianism, and invitation to attend campaign rally for Norman Thomas on August 22.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-227/

Narrator Joe Ishikawa

Nisei male. Born July 29, 1919, in Los Angeles, California. Went to live in Japan as a college student, returning just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado, before leaving to attend the University of Nebraska. Worked as a curator in the …

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doc Letter from Claude Canaday to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-226)

Canady politely declines the invitation to run for office

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doc Letter from Bill Becker to Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-202)

Requirements to add candidate to Nebraskan ballot from Socialist Party U.S.A.

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vh Ernest Besig Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1002-3-7)

Description of Norman Thomas

This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding …

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ds Pacific Citizen, Vol. 58, Vol. 20 (May 15, 1964) (ddr-pc-36-20)

Selected article titles: "Fiction Can Be Damaging" (p.1), "Norman Thomas to Be Honored at 18th Biennial" (p.1), "442nd Veterans Join Nat'l JACL in May 30 Rites" (p.1), "Pension Rights for Evacuees on Ballot" (p.1), "Watering Down Rights Bill?" (p.2), "Sansei Urged to Keep Japanese Heritage" (p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-36-20/

doc Democracy and Japanese Americans (ddr-csujad-38-580)

A booklet describing the forced evacuation and incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. The author states that "the method of handling Japanese Americans has been neither constitutional nor democratic." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_18_001

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doc Democracy and Japanese Americans (ddr-csujad-55-344)

Pamphlet describing "evacuation", incarceration, court cases including Wakayama, Korematsu, Yasui, Hirabayashi, and Kanai, and the civil liberties issues surrounding the treatment of individuals of Japanese descent during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0346

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doc Letter to Kaneji Domoto from a WRA relocation officer (ddr-densho-329-101)

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doc "Democracy and Japanese Americans" (ddr-densho-423-157)

Transcription of pamphlet by Norman Thomas, published by the Post War World Council, criticizing the incarceration and identifying actions to take to protest. Includes letter of support signed by prominent civil rights activists, lawyers, writers and pastors who opposed incarceration: Helen Marston Beardsley, Ernest Besig, John Dos Passos, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Esther Fiske Hammond, Arthur Garfield …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-157/

vh Joe Ishikawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-205)

Nisei male. Born July 29, 1919, in Los Angeles, California. Went to live in Japan as a college student, returning just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada concentration camp, Colorado, before leaving to attend the University of Nebraska. Worked as a curator in the …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 94, No. 19 (May 14, 1982) (ddr-pc-54-19)

Selected article titles: "Japan's Economy Will Outpace Europe & U.S., Forecaster Says" (pp. 1, 12), "Yakuza a Growing Problem in U.S." (pp. 1, 3), "From the Frying Pan: Rep. Mineta's Sobering Reunion Message" (p. 5), and "The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: A Centennial" (pp. 9, 12).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-54-19/

img Sixth grade class picture (ddr-densho-433-1264)

Written on verso: Left to Right, Class Picture, John Muir School, Sixth Grade, Oct. 27, 1933, Front Row - Eva Mitchell, Catherine Martinez, Lillian Ramarez, Nellie Martin, Rosie Baroza, Frank DeRose, Elmer Goulart, Joe Rubio, Thomas Henderson, Manuel Souza, Second Row - Lorraine Dias, Antoinette Fernandez, Betty Zacarias, Wilda Mann, Jean Brown, Manuel Silva, Joe Gomez, …

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img Sixth grade class picture (ddr-densho-433-1273)

Written on verso: Left to Right, Class Picture, John Muir School, Sixth Grade, Oct. 27, 1933, Front Row - Eva Mitchell, Catherine Martinez, Lillian Ramarez, Nellie Martin, Rosie Baroza, Frank DeRose, Elmer Goulart, Joe Rubio, Thomas Henderson, Manuel Souza, Second Row - Lorraine Dias, Antoinette Fernandez, Betty Zacarias, Wilda Mann, Jean Brown, Manuel Silva, Joe Gomez, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-433-1273/

doc Oriental Crisis is Forum Topic (October 31, 1937) (ddr-densho-56-478)

The Seattle Daily Times, October 31, 1937, p. 27

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doc Letter to the Editor of the Omaha World Herald from Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-223)

Clarification of Socialist Party platform for newspaper readers

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doc A Myopic Account of a Relocated Life during the Second World War (ddr-densho-468-97)

Personal recollections of life in an assembly center and relocation camp for Japanese descendants and various digressions

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 20 (November 15, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-46)

Selected article titles: "A great day for Mike and American Nisei" (p. 1), "Mike Masaoka to speak on JACL - past, present and future at Chicago" (p. 1), "Enomoto sanctions Chicago JACL protest" (p. 1), "Inouye, Matsunaga, Mink roll up record setting vote" (p. 1), "Seattle JACLers hear local Negro militants" (p. 1), "Agnew worried over …

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doc The Redress Monitor (ddr-densho-381-52)

The national newsletter of the Japanese American Citizens League; volume 2, number 3. Included are articles on: waiting for redress, messages from the editor and chair, fundraising information, a statement from Senator Inouye, and more.

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 25 (December 20-27, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-51)

Selected article titles: "In Honor of Pioneers from Japan to America" (p. 1), "The Sorry Memory: More Are Questioning the Constitutionality of Korematsu Case -- Low Point in U.S. History for Japanese Americans" (p. 2), "Political Behavior of Issei and Nisei" (p. 2), "How Japanese Are the Japanese Americans?" (p. 21), "Hayakawa 'hottest' Issue in S.F. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-40-51/

doc Letter to H. Leon Yager from Yoshito Fujii (ddr-sbbt-2-34)

A response letter to H. Leon Yager from Yoshito Fujii with an enclosed personal history statement.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-34/

doc Nonfiction manuscript: "Road to Freedom" with submission letter and rejection letter (ddr-densho-468-158)

Manuscript of nonfiction narrative describing experience as Japanese-American seeking student leave from World War II incarceration. The manuscript incorporates letters to various college admission staff. Page one is a submission letter to the Yale Review. Page two is a rejection slip.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-158/