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vh Dotti Yasuko Tagawa Reisbord Interview (ddr-densho-1000-509)

Nisei-Sansei female. Born May 9, 1941, in Seattle Washington. An infant when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, family was sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, family returned to Seattle, where Dotti attended school. After high school, moved to Southern California, raised a family, and became a teacher …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 25 (November 19, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-24)

Selected article titles: "Legality of Military Curfew Order on U.S. Nisei Citizens Questioned by Federal Judge" (p. 1), "Democracy in Action: JACL Leaders Discuss Problems" (p. 1), "Yasui Prefers Soldier's Death To Life in Relocation Center" (p. 1), "Challenging Discrimination Will Help Win War, Declares Wirin" (p. 2), "U.S. Nisei Battalion Trains For War Combat Duty …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 29 (December 17, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-28)

Selected article titles: "Army, WRA Take Swift Action To Segregate Instigators of Recent Manzanar Disturbance" (p. 1), "WRA Moves Nisei Leaders to Death Valley" (p. 1), "JACL Will Enter Court Case On Nisei Citizenship Rights" (p. 1), "Coast Newspapers Comment on Manzanar" (p. 2), "Korematsu Case Briefs Filed in U.S. District Appeals Court" (p. 2), "L.A. …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 79 (July 2, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-168)

Selected article titles: "Reconsideration Asked of Myer"; "Property issue Before Kilgore Senate Group"; "Carnival Dance Slated"; "Legislature Fails to Adopt Commission"; "Committee May Try on Voluntary Basis"; "Compliment Girls"; "100th Infantrymen Flown Back by ATC Planes to Florida Airbase from Italy"; "Teamster Would Hire Nisei War Veterans"; "400 at Inaugural Ball"; "Reason for Double Joy"; "Say …

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img Portrait of Issei lawyer (ddr-densho-259-385)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Portrait of Daiichi Takeoka as a young man. This man was a highly influential in the Portland and in the Oregon Japanese communities. His oldest son, Kay, says that his father graduated from the University of Oregon law school in 1912...Daiichi Takeoka took a lead role in fighting discriminatory laws such as …

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XIX, No. 10, November 1982 (ddr-sjacl-1-315)

Newsletter covering the following topics: Seattle JACL pledges $750/qurter for the next three years for National Redress program; story on Hirabayashi, Korematsu, and Yasui court case re-opening; John Kanda (Puyallup Valley) and Tomio Moriguchi explain the history of the JACL National Endowment fund, originally recipients of 1958 Evacuation Claims Act were asked to pay 10% to …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 27 (December 3, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-26)

Selected article titles: "Eight Nisei Evacuees Enlisted in U.S. Army at Height of Disturbance at Poston Center" (p. 1), "107 Evacuees, First Contingent From Hawaii, Relocated at Jerome Center in Arkansas" (p. 1), "JACL Reiterates December 7 Denunciation of Military Japan" (p. 1), "Delay in Prosecuting Cases Against Nisei Civil Service Workers Told Assemblyman" (p. 2), …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 17 No. 2 (July 17, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-27)

Selected article titles: "Nisei War Hero is Presented To King and Queen of Britain" (p. 1), "Segregation in WRA Centers Slated to Begin in September, Myer Says in Dies Hearing" (p. 1), "Three Nisei Injured in Chicago Fight" (p. 1), "Japanese Americans Act as Doormat for Coast Newspapers" (p. 2), "New Delay Resentencing Minoru Yasui" (p. …

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img "The Hood River Japanese Methodist Church Camp" (ddr-densho-259-285)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Hood River Japanese Methodist Church Camp at Tilly Jane Campground in the Mount Hood National Forest We actually camped out in tents then, and the supplies had to be hauled across the Tilly Jane Creek canyon on a cable car [This picture] includes Raymond Hiroshige (a U of O college classmate …

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doc Eden Township JACL 60th anniversary program (ddr-densho-329-841)

Program for the 60th Anniversary Celebration & Annual Installation Dinner of the Eden Township JACL in San Lorenzo, California. Program lists the order of events for a speaking program and dinner, a list of charter members of the 1936 Eden Township Chapter of the JACL and the 1997 Eden Township JACL, introduces Herbert Yamanishi as National …

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XX, No. 1, January 1983 (ddr-sjacl-1-318)

Newsletter covering the following topics: 1993 President, Mako Nakagawa; 61st Installation Banquet, January 22, 1983, Butcher Restaurant (Atrium Design Center), Homer Yasui-emcee; Lake Washington JACL Dinner, January 15 at Benjamins in Bellevue, $16.00, 1983 President Ken Okuma, Keynote-Ron Mamiya; National JACL President, Floyd Shimomura, visits Seattle in December and speaks to a large throng from Seattle, …

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XX, No. 1, January 1983 (ddr-sjacl-1-317)

Newsletter covering the following topics: 1993 President, Mako Nakagawa; 61st Installation Banquet, January 22, 1983, Butcher Restaurant (Atrium Design Center), Homer Yasui-emcee; Lake Washington JACL Dinner, January 15 at Benjamins in Bellevue, $16.00, 1983 President Ken Okuma, Keynote-Ron Mamiya; National JACL President, Floyd Shimomura, visits Seattle in December and speaks to a large throng from Seattle, …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 26 (July 3, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-26)

Selected article titles: "JACL President Brands Dies Group Charges as Vicious Attack Upon Nisei Integrity" (p. 1), "Dies Group Opens Hearings on Japanese Americans. First Witness Asks for Segregation of Disloyal Elements in WRA Centers" (p. 1), "First Nisei Girl Accepted For Service in WAAC" (p. 1), "Luxury Foods Not Bought For Evacuees. Army Buyer Says …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 25 (December 9, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-18)

Selected article titles: "Colony's Acute Labor Shortage Now Relieved" (p. 1), "One Killed, Nine Hurt in Manzanar. Calif. Center Under Martial Law" (p. 1), "Long Leaves For 3 More Approved" (p. 1), "Dearer Than Life Itself Is U.S. Citizenship -- Yasui" (p. 2), "Japanese Library Opened. Shelves Contain Over 1000 Volumes" (p. 3), "Postage Now Required …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 15 No. 3 (June 18, 1942) (ddr-pc-14-6)

Selected article titles: "Not Unmindful of Citizens' Rights, Says Stimson" (p. 1), "Japanese Workers Save Idaho Beet Crop" (p. 1), "Yasui Case Tests Legality Of Curfew Ban" (p. 1), "Little Tokyo's Last Gasp Told By Last Nisei in Los Angeles" (p. 1), "Evacuee Evader Given Six Months Term in Prison" (p. 1), "Three U.S.-Born Face Charges …

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 16 No. 19 (May 18, 1943) (ddr-pc-15-19)

Selected article titles: "Supreme Court Hears Nisei Test Cases. Yasui, Hirabayashi Appeals Challenge Constitutionality Of Evacuation of U.S. Citizens" (p. 1), "Senate Committee Reports on Relocation, Urging Release Of Loyal Evacuees from Centers" (p. 1), "Hawaii's Food Raised Largely By Japanese" (p. 1), "Masaoka Will Appear Before House Hearing" (p. 1), "New Born Baby Confounds Coast …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 26 (December 12, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-158)

Selected article titles: "Allowances for Clothing are Compiled" (p. 1), "Moore Arrives to Assume Duties as Project Attorney" (p. 1), "Meat Rationing Planned by WRA" (p. 1), "Irrigator Asks Contributions for Yule Issue" (p. 1), "Kettle of Water on Stove Will Help to Prevent Cold - Neher" (p. 3), "Recruits from Tule Lake for Savage Listed" …

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img Float in the Portland Rose Festival Parade (ddr-densho-259-163)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Two horses pulling a flatbed wagon which is draped with representations of the rising run flag and the starry blue & white field of the American flag. Four Nihonjin girls in kimono, holding paper parasols, stand under a branching double-decked tree made out of what appears to be paper roses. There's also …

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vh Mary Kato - Frances Kajita Nishi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-494)

This interview is with two sisters, Mary Kato and Frances Kajita Nishi. Ten years apart in age, they grew up in Mosier, Washington, where their parents worked on an orchard and did truck farming. During World War II, the family was removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Following …

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Narrator Peter Irons

White male. Born 1940 in Salem, Massachusetts. Family moved frequently during his childhood due to father's employment. Strongly influenced by parents' values regarding racial tolerance and inclusion, and principles learned through Unitarian Church. While attending Antioch College in Ohio, became involved in political and social activism for civil rights. Joined the youth branch of NAACP, the …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. I No. 24 (December 5, 1942) (ddr-densho-119-157)

Selected article titles: "Abe Found Dead" (p. 1), "Flat Tires Play Role in Discovery. Eye-Witness Account Related" (p. 1), "Leave Clearances from Washington Being Speeded Up" (p. 1), "300 Nisei Strong Pledge Support of Yasui Case" (p. 2), "Sept. Pay is Cleared Up. Unpaid Workers Get Checks" (p. 2), "New Policy Facilitates Relocation" (p. 2), "Harmonica …

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img Portrait of a lawyer and his wife from Hood River (ddr-densho-259-50)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Ernest Chandler Smith and his wife Alice. E.C. Smith was an attorney, and he did all of our legal work, as he did for many other Hood River Issei Smith had verbally--not legally--defended Dad when he was in an internment camp; and he spoke sympathetically about the plight of the Nikkei who …

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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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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. XVI, No. 4, April 1979 (ddr-sjacl-1-278)

Newsletter covering the following topics: Japanese Doctor to examine hibakusha victims in Seattle, Ken Nakano chair; Akemi Matsumoto announces 4 scholarship, 3-$450 and 1-$300; Ron Mamiya out as National Redress Committee Member?Interesting article on rift between National JACL and Seattle over carrying out the mandate from JACL National Council votes. Some big names like Bill Marutani …

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doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. II No. 3 (January 9, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-161)

Selected article titles: "Clothing Grants Given. First Payment Covers Period Up to Nov. 1, 10 Blocks Cared For" (p. 1), "No Transfer to Another Center Planned" (p. 1), "Reunion of Internee and Family Assured by Myer" (p. 1), "New Camp Opening. Best, Glenn Now in Temporary Charge" (p. 1), "West Coast Sentiment" (p. 2), "Sanitary Survey …

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