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vh Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-166-2)

Family background: mother an older Nisei

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vh Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-166-1)

Family background: parents settled in Tacoma, Washington

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vh Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-166-15)

Getting married and raising a family

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vh Wesley K. Watanabe Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-166-9)

Parents' values: importance of education, religion

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img Canteen staff, Amache Co-op (ddr-csujad-55-1553)

Black and white photograph of the Amache Consumer Enterprises canteen staff at Amache incarceration camp. Pictured from left to right (front row) H. Hamasaki, K. Shinozaki, M. Sugihara (second row) M. Kawamura, M. Asakawa, M. Yonehiro, K. Watanabe, H. Uyeda, N. Kawashima, M. Joe (third row) S. Nabeshima, S. Nabeshima, T. Shiino, H. Dairiki, and J. …

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doc Property storage list (ddr-sbbt-2-37)

A lists of names and locations for stored property. Yoshimura, J.; Nomura, S.; Okamoto, M.; Ujimoto, N.; Yamanaka, K.; Mizuta, S.; Matsui, J.; Tsutsumi, N.; Yoshimura, M.; Miyake, Y.; Miyake, H.; Izui; Shioyama, K.; Matsuda, Haruye; Hirokane, T.; Iwamura, K.; Suzuki, Y.; Kuromiya, S.; Edamura, H.; Kokita, K.; Takahashi, T.; Morinaga, T.; Shimizu, N.; Fukuhara, H. …

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Narrator Wesley K. Watanabe

Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born May 20, 1935, in Tacoma, Washington. Spent early childhood in Kent, Washington, and was removed with family to the Pinedale Assembly Center at age seven. Family was incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and then moved to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled and attended grade school and high school in Chicago, …

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doc Relocation planning commission (ddr-sbbt-2-26)

Meeting minutes for the relocation planning commission at Minidoka concentration camp.

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 57 (January 27, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-144)

Selected article titles: "18-Year Olds Are Urged to Register" (p. 1), "Fire Siren Will Indicate if Schools Are Closed" (p. 1), "Ready Markets Can Be Found for Storage Goods -- Robinson" (p. 1), "Colonists Turn to Winter Sports" (p. 1), "Story of Factory Construction Told" (p. 2), "Boy Scouts to Conduct Class: 'Leadership' to be Subject …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 67, No. 8 (August 23, 1968) (ddr-pc-40-34)

Selected article titles: "Okura civil rights position paper" (p. 1), "Convention still in swing for youth at San Jose State campus" (p. 1), "CCDC caution in civil rights activities slated" (p. 1), "800 expected to register for JACL convention" (p. 1), "CCDC position paper on civil rights" (p. 2), "JACL leaders called upon to support detention …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 7 (March 29, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-188)

Selected article titles: "WRA Will Transfer Household Goods: Will Aid In Relocation" (p. 1), "School P.T.A. To Meet Tues." (p. 1), "Repatriation Applications" (p. 1), "30 to Leave on Seed Work" (p. 1), "Red Cross Campaign Is Launched Today in City" (p. 1), "Friday Fire" (p. 1), "Deposit on Pop Bottles" (p. 1), "Secretary Work Leave" …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 12 (September 18, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-38)

Selected article titles: "JACL joins nat'l organizations for meaningful civil rights bill" (p. 1), "Immigration law liberalized to reunite family units, bill on President's desk" (p. 1), "Important to look back to past as well as to future in all types of planning, Wakamatsu tells CLers at EDC-MDC confab" (p. 3), "300-mile radius of Magic Valley …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 49 (January 16, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-136)

Selected article titles: "Lunches For 730 Students Will Be Served at School: New Meal Schedule Effective Monday for Pupils From Remote Blocks" (p. 1), "Bar-bell Classes Will Begin Again" (p. 1), "Comic Books Dominate Enlarged News Stand" (p. 1), "Final Truck Delivery Date" (p. 1), "History of Tule Lake" (p. 2), "Positive T.B. Test Does Not …

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doc Minidoka consumers co-op membership list (ddr-sbbt-2-23)

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doc 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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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. IV No. 18 (December 3, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-340)

Selected article titles: "Outside Relocation JACL Confab Pledge" (p. 1), "Scrip Book Purchases Declared Not Taxable" (p. 1), "To Feel Outside Sentiment" (p. 2), "200 Parents Meet Recruiting Officers" (p. 2), "Trip to Salt Lake Conclave Increases Outside Confidence" (p. 3).

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. IV No. 16 (December 1, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-339)

Selected article titles: "Councilmen Election Returns. 31165 Total Votes Cast to Elect 28 Councilmen" (p. 1), "Volunteer Blood Donors Wanted" (p. 1), "'Relocation: Its Meaning'" (p. 2), "Book Co-op Group Formed in Colony" (p. 3), "Request Claim Repaired Shoes" (p. 3).

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img Group photo in front of medical facility with signatures on the back (ddr-densho-515-2)

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 96 (July 12, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-250)

Selected article titles: "Program For All Relocation Center: To Segregate on 'Basis of National Loyalty Or Sympathy'" (p. 1), "Japan Sends Exchange List; To Post Names" (p. 1), "CIO to Contact Former Nisei Union Member" (p. 1), "Civil Exams Are Given" (p. 1), "A Story Worth Telling: Truck Driver Wins Fight Against Discrimination" (p. 2), "Sakoda …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 5 No. 50 (May 18, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-366)

Selected article titles: "Shoe Certificates to be Distributed on Arrival. Delay No Fault of Mgrs." (p. 1), "Qualified Persons May Go Out on Civil Service Jobs" (p. 1), "Minor Cases Were Tried Last Week" (p. 2), "100 Railroad Workers Needed" (p. 2).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 7 [4] (July 28, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-31)

Selected article titles: "Japanese in Calif. Outlive Nonorientals: UC Berkeley Study Underway Among 5,000 Issei-Nisei" (p. 1), "Return of Yen Deposits from July 1, 1968, Assured: Three Categories of Claimants to Be Paid Specified in Jones Decision" (p. 1), "Three Days at Tijuana Orphanage Set as PSW District Youth Service Project" (p. 1), "Americanization of Japan's …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 77 (February 18, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-162)

Selected article titles: "Registration is Clarified: Army Major Says Choice Must Be Made" (p. 1), "Registration at 2 Centers Near Finish" (p. 1), "Higher Education Economic Class" (p. 1), "Dispatch Editor Leaves For Denver" (p. 1), "U. & I. Sugar Co. Agents Here" (p. 1), "Farm Labor Recruitment" (p. 1), "Registration For Friday Released" (p. 1), …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 65, No. 8 [5] (August 4, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-32)

Selected article titles: "JACL honors fallen Nisei in battle as solemn climax to Jerry's Visit" (p. 1), "WRA legal counsel feared avalanche of evacuation test cases, only few filed" (p. 1), "Most important lesson learned by JACL since evacuation related" (p. 2), "Japanese American community blamed for increase delinquency" (p. 4), "'Sansei on Sex' workshop theme …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 64, No. 26 (June 30, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-27)

Selected article titles: "Political attitudes of Northwest Japanese Americans under study" (p. 1), "52 prep scholars bid for JACL awards" (p. 1), "Influence of Nichiren and Sokagakkai in modern Japan topic of research" (p. 1), "Housing law referendum bugs Washingtonians" (p. 4), "Fair housing bill in Illinois appears dead for this session" (p. 4), "Some Fresh …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 83 (March 1, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-170)

Selected article titles: "Alien Registration to Start: Nobody Will Be Forced to Leave Project" (p. 1), "13 Removed From Colony For Beatings" (p. 1), "Rec. Activities Will be Resumed" (p. 1), "Registration For Citizens Released" (p. 1), "Nimura Taken to Klamath Jail" (p. 1), "U.C. Club Program Is Slated For Tonight At Dining Hall 17" (p. …

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