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vh Ken Yoshida Interview (ddr-densho-1000-428)

Nisei male. Born July 31, 1923, in Tacoma, Washington. Lived in Tacoma for a few years before moving with family to Redwood City, California, where family ran a flower nursery. During World War II, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz (Central Utah) concentration camp, Utah. While in Topaz, refused to obey the …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-428-13)

Serving sentence for draft resistance at a road camp

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-428-6)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, evading curfew

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-428-7)

First impressions of the Tanforan Assembly Center

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-428-8)

Working as an ambulance driver in camp

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-428-12)

Pleading no contest to charges of draft resistance

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-428-4)

Moving to Guadalupe, California

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-428-10)

Picked up and taking to a county jail for refusing draft order

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-428-5)

Becoming the family's breadwinner

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-428-1)

Parents' family backgrounds

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-428-9)

Answering "yes-yes" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire but deciding to resist the draft

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-428-2)

Description of siblings

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-428-3)

Childhood memories of Tacoma, Washington

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions …

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vh Ken Yoshida Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-428-11)

Daily life in the country jail

This interview is incomplete. It ends after the first hour of taping, when Mr. Yoshida is describing serving time at the road camp for resisting the draft. This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and …

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img Ken Kawamoto and Maia Yoshida playing basketball (ddr-densho-336-631)

The 1974 Lake Sequoia Retreat summer camp.

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Narrator Ken Yoshida

Nisei male. Born July 31, 1923, in Tacoma, Washington. Lived in Tacoma for a few years before moving with family to Redwood City, California, where family ran a flower nursery. During World War II, removed to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz (Central Utah) concentration camp, Utah. While in Topaz, refused to obey the …

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doc Postcard of Nisei Resisters (ddr-densho-122-589)

Front and back

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doc Letter from Evacuee Police to Raymond Best, Director of Tule Lake Camp, February 1, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-13)

Letter from Evacuee Police Force to Raymond Best, Director of Tule Lake Camp, requesting the release of Hiroyoshi Tsuda from the army stockades at Tule Lake Camp. Signed names: Kataoka, H.; Okusako, Thomas; Ogata, Roy K.; Miyamoto, H.; Tanaka, K.; Haruyama, N.; Yoshida, Maeko; Hanagata, Ken; Ayabe, Toshi S.; Ono, I; Kanno, Thomas K.; Sato, R.; …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 71, No. 23 (December 1970) (ddr-pc-42-48)

Selected article titles: "United Way insensitive to Little Tokyo social needs" (p. 1), "Placer County hears Suzuki talk on Sansei identity" (p. 1), "Educators claim bias in textbooks" (p. 1), "Sansei scholar pens 'Perspectives on Black America'" (p. 2), "J.A. Conservatives League" (p. 6).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 64, No. 9 (March 3, 1967) (ddr-pc-39-9)

Selected article titles: "Wapato Sansei denied entry in Sigma Chi Frat: Nine Whitman College Students Quit, Protest Racial Discrimination" (p. 1), "Anthropological arguments used in JACL anti-miscegenation brief" (p. 1), "Once folksy Honolulu neighborhood now scared after three acts of violence" (p. 2), "Contra Costa youth trade views with Nisei parents" (p. 4).

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doc Isoshima family tree (ddr-densho-477-8)

A document depicting the Isoshima family tree for five generations. The caption at the top of the page reads "The Isoshima Family Clan."

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 49, No. 24 (December 11, 1959) (ddr-pc-31-50)

Selected article titles: "Nisei attorney wins civil rights case for three Negroes" (p. 1), "Wakamatsu hits race bias in talk before placer county JACL fete" (p. 1), "10-year dream comes true for Japanese Community center in San Fernando Valley" (p. 1), "U.S. and Japan need each other to survive, Rep. Inouye declares" (p. 3), "Kimono-clad girls …

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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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doc Block commissioners (ddr-sbbt-2-24)

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doc Minidoka community council (ddr-sbbt-2-25)

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