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img Norm Mineta giving a speech (ddr-jamsj-1-539)

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img Japanese Editor Nob Hirota & Assistant Yone Kubo (ddr-jamsj-1-11)

Group working on the printing the association's publication.

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img Norm Mineta giving opening speech (ddr-jamsj-1-621)

The 20th Anniversary Commemoration-Installation Dinner at Hyatt House.

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img Norman Mineta-- "Do You"? (ddr-jamsj-1-255)

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img John Nakano and Francis Watari of Orange County Giving Us Valuable Information on Preparing Convention (ddr-jamsj-1-159)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 7 (February 17, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-7)

Selected article titles: "San Jose to Greet 174 Teams for National JACL Bowling Tournament Mar. 6-11 at Mel's Palm Bowl: Congressman Inouye to Address Awards Fete at Fairgrounds" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: Minorities in the Administration" (p. 1), and "Puyallup Valley's Issei Story Outlined" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-7/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 123, No. 4 (August 16-September 5, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-16)

Selected article titles: "JACL National Convention, San Jose, Aug. 6-11, 1996: All Aboard" (p. 1), "English-Only Bill Passes House" (pp. 1-2), "Severity of Anti-Asian Violence Is Increasing, Report Says" (p. 4), and "Michigan to Recall Murphy Dissent Against Internment" (pp. 6, 9).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-68-16/

doc Attendees (ddr-csujad-55-1860)

List of individuals who attended the Poston II High School reunion in San Jose, California. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1863

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img Japanese American farmers prior to mass removal (ddr-densho-151-126)

Original caption: Near Mission San Jose, California. This family of Japanese ancestry have but a few more days to work in their stawberry field before evacuation to an assembly point from where they will later be transferred to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration.

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img Portrait of Mary Mon Toy (ddr-densho-367-157)

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Narrator Mary Ishimoto Watanabe

Nisei female. Born September 29, 1920, in San Jose, California. Grew up in Cupertino, California. Attending San Jose State College when World War II broke out. Sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Left camp with the help of the National Student Relocation Council to attend graduate school. …

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vh Peggy S. Furukawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-399)

Nisei female. Born March 30, 1928, in San Jose, California. Prior to World War II, sent by father to live in Japan with relatives. Remained in Japan during the war, attending school and working in an airplane parts factory to support the Japanese war effort. Eventually returned to the United States and San Jose.

(This material …

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vh Dorothy Michiko Ishimatsu Interview (ddr-densho-1000-398)

Nisei female. Born June 17, 1927, in Mayfield, California. Grew up in the Mountain View area, where family ran a berry farm. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, family decided to move to Utah to avoid mass removal. Attended high school in Utah before returning to California to enroll in San Jose State University. Remained in San …

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vh Larry R. Pacheco Interview (ddr-densho-1000-397)

White male. Born November 4, 1922, in San Jose, California. Drafted into the military after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. During World War II, served as a military police guard at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Shipped overseas, and was captured in France as a prisoner of war and held in Germany. After completing military service, …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 108, No. 4 (February 3, 1989) (ddr-pc-61-4)

Selected article titles: "Calif. Legislature Resolution Urges Immediate Redress in Full" (p. 1), "Matsui & Ujifusa Say: Strategy to Increase Redress Appropriations Ready" (pp. 1, 3), "JACL Blasts Anti-Redress Political Ad as 'Misguided and Exploitative'" (p. 1), and "San Jose JACL & Community to Start Endowment Foundation" (p. 5).

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img Irene Hirota and Sue Yanari helping with publication, Jack Kumagai "Supervising" (ddr-jamsj-1-2)

Group working on the printing the association's publication.

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 72, No. 16 (April 23, 1971) (ddr-pc-43-16)

Selected article titles: "Six JARP books in '72 expected" (p. 1), "Norman Mineta wins San Jose mayor election" (p. 1), "Parents demand Nisei principal be replaced" (p. 1), "Patsy Mink challenges Asian ethnic scholars to wider roles" (p. 1), "JACL urges anti-poverty programs be kept present OEO structure" (p. 2)

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doc Gila News-Courier Vol. IV No. 20 (March 10, 1945) (ddr-densho-141-378)

Selected article titles: "Hang on to Ration Books" (p. 1), "Nisei Question Validity of Military Exclusion" (p. 1), "Cincinnati: Catholic Editor Scores Racism" (p. 2), "Hood River: Restores Nisei Names" (p. 2), "Housing, Jobs? Come In and Listen " (p. 3), "San Jose Returnee Home Set Afire, Fired Upon" (p. 3).

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img Japanese Americans working in field (ddr-densho-151-307)

Original caption: Near Mission San Jose, California. Family of Japanese ancestry laboring in their strawberry field at opening of harvest season. Note the distant Coast Range Hills and their farm homes and buildings that can be seen at the end of the strawberry rows. Evacuation is due in a few days.

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img Japanese Americans in field (ddr-densho-151-308)

Original caption: Near Mission San Jose, California. Family of Japanese ancestry laboring in their strawberry field at opening of harvest season. Note the distant Coast Range Hills and their farm homes and buildings that can be seen at the end of the strawberry rows. Evacuation is due in a few days.

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av Interview with Mary M. Hirai (tape 1, side 1) (ddr-ajah-3-352)

Mary M. Hirai was born on November 19, 1900. She left Japan as a baby and moved to Hawaii with her parents, then they went to San Jose, California, when Mrs. Hirai was aged five. Her father worked in a cannery and her grandmother cooked in Toyokan, a Japanese hotel.

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av Interview with Mary M. Hirai (tape 1, side 2) (ddr-ajah-3-353)

Mary M. Hirai was born on November 19, 1900. She left Japan as a baby and moved to Hawaii with her parents, then they went to San Jose, California, when Mrs. Hirai was aged five. Her father worked in a cannery and her grandmother cooked in Toyokan, a Japanese hotel.

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vh Susan Hayase Interview (ddr-densho-1000-13)

Sansei female. Born 1956. Member of San Jose Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC) and National Coalition for Redress/Reparations (NCRR). Helped recruit individuals to testify during the San Francisco hearings for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens (CWRIC) and organized support for the redress movement at grassroots level.

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img Peter Nakahara, Legal Advisor (ddr-jamsj-1-392)

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 13 (April 6, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-13)

Select article titles: "U.S. Census Hears Asian Concerns"(p.1);"JACL Calls for Repeal of Discriminatory Employer Sanctions in Immigration Law"(p.1); "San Jose Japantown Seizes Unique Opportunity for Revitalization of Businesses & Community Life"(p.2); "Common Memorial to Restore Pioneer Issei History on Vancouver Island Planned for 1991"(p.3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-62-13/

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