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doc Gila News-Courier Vol. III No. 81 (February 26, 1944) (ddr-densho-141-236)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Soldier: Hitler Hadn't Told Them" (p. 1), "Council Investigation Absolves Police Force" (p. 1), "Ruling Affects Nisei Seamen" (p. 1), "Editorial: Internal Security, People Have Much in Common" (p. 2), "Heart Mt.: Writer Scores Draft Agitation" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-141-236/

doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. 2 No. 1 (January 2, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-160)

Selected article titles: "Arnold, Writer for Oregonian, Here on Assignment" (p. 1), "Restriction Placed on Food Items" (p. 2), "Irrigator Mailing Service Available at 16 Cents a Month" (p. 2), "Mochi-Gome Arrives" (p. 3), "Gravel Used on Roads by Hospital" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-160/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 51, No.9 (August 26, 1960) (ddr-pc-32-35)

Select article titles: "New York writer recalls heroism of Lt. Daniel Inouye, who led platoon up hill in Italy and cleaned out 3 machine gun nets" (p.8); "U.S. Senate urge to arrange goodwill tour of 100 Tokyo student rioters to U.S." (p.8)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-32-35/

doc Newspaper clipping regarding Maxim Gorky (ddr-njpa-1-460)

Caption on front: "Soviet Russia's leading writer, Maxim Gorki [sic], who was recalled from exile in Italy to reutrn in triumph to his native land and is now ranked as one of the immortals of the new regime. From a new candid-camera portrait. (Sovfoto.)"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-njpa-1-460/

av Ties That Bind: Generations of Faith (ddr-densho-1024-25)

Documentary film about this history of the Buena Vista United Methodist Church, a Japanese American church in Alameda, California , on its 100th anniversary. Using family photographs, home movies and other sources, the film takes us through the church's history in ten and twenty year intervals, highlighting its founding and early growth through the Issei era, …

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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. 5 No. 21 (March 11, 1944) (ddr-densho-125-218)

Selected article titles: "Writer Discusses Aspects of Racial Persecution" (p. 1), "Washington Office Authorizes Enlargement of Farm Program" (p. 1), "WRA Probe Made on Hiring of Nisei Help" (p. 1), "Jobs for Evacuees Available in East" (p. 1), "Madison Japanese-Americans Get Favorable Reception" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-125-218/

doc Nisei combat unit has highest I.Q. in U.S. Army, says writer (ddr-csujad-49-178)

Newspaper article about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team titled, "Nisei Combat Unit Has Highest I.Q. in the U.S. Army, Says Writer." An item from: pages 94-95 of the Sue Kato scrapbook (gfb_skc_001). See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 2019_002_001_061_01

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-49-178/

doc Copy of letter from unknown writer to L.A. County draft board (ddr-densho-122-826)

Refusing to comply with the draft

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 25 (June 19, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-133)

Selected article titles: "Manpower Issue Causes Concern. Hundreds Leaving Center" (p. 1), "Nazi Agents Aided in Pearl Harbor Attack; Says OWI" (p. 1), "'Synthetic Dragon Need Not Frighten Nation'" (p. 1), "Helpless U.S. Minority Wronged, Says Writer" (p. 2), "Editorial: What We Say, and What We Do" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-97-133/

doc Reconsideration page 2 of 2 (ddr-one-5-162)

Photocopy of a declassified document labeled "RECONSIDERATION." The writer states that he would have recommended parole based on he and his family being Methodist and his son a member of the Boy Scouts, but due to his membership in Sokoku Kai, he believes that Keizaburo Koyama should be interned.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-5-162/

doc Pacific Citizen, Whole No. 2154, Vol. 93, No. 10 (September 4, 1981) (ddr-pc-53-35)

Selected article titles: "Asian Pacific advocacy group set to open office" (p. 1), "Mineta expresses caution on redress" (p. 1), "L.A. Times writer discusses racial slurs in the media" (p. 1), "After 40 years, misconception over Evacuation still lingers" (p. 2), "Pacific Northwest symposium a step forward for Hibakusha" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-53-35/

doc Gila News-Courier Vol. III No. 67 (January 25, 1944) (ddr-densho-141-222)

Selected article titles: "Efficient Handling of Coast Property Planned" (p. 1), "Inefficiency Charged to I.S." (p. 1), "Magazine Writer Tours Center" (p. 1), "Editorial: Draft and Future" (p. 2), "Ariz. Republic Rebukes Nazi Manifestations" (p. 2), "DeWitt and Report on Japanese and 'Coincidences'" (p. 5), "Reminder: Men Must Carry Draft Cards" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-141-222/

doc Granada Pioneer Vol. II No. 73 (July 19, 1944) (ddr-densho-147-186)

Selected article titles: "Citizenship Renouncing Bill Signed by President" (p. 1), "Play Name Aliens Beneficiaries" (p. 1), "26 Tule Lake Japanese Aliens Removed to Internment Camps" (p. 1), "Renouncing Citizenship" (p. 2), "Evacuee Return to West Coast Near Opines Writer" (p. 3), "Tule Lake Internees Get Right to Appeal for Leave" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-147-186/

av Voices Behind Barbed Wire (Hawai'i Island Version) (ddr-densho-1024-42)

Short film that tells the story of Japanese Americans on Big Island of Hawai'i who were interned during World War II using a combination of contemporary interviews, historical photographs and footage, and historical reenactments. It is one of a series of four films produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i about the internment experience in …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-42/

av Voices Behind Barbed Wire (O'ahu Version) (ddr-densho-1024-43)

Short film that tells the story of Japanese Americans on O'ahu who were interned during World War II using a combination of contemporary interviews, historical photographs and footage, and historical reenactments. It is one of a series of four films produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i about the internment experience in each of the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-43/

doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. III No. 20 (May 13, 1944) (ddr-densho-97-181)

Selected article titles: "125 Leave for Tule Next Week" (p. 1), "'Why Should Punishment Continue,' Writer Asks" (p. 1), "Jury Indicts Delinquents as 25 Leave for Service" (p. 1), "Voting Rights Now Confirmed" (p. 1), "Ex-Center Residents Gratified They 'Struck Out on Their Own'" (p. 4), "Valedictory Address; Citizenship Carries Responsibility" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-97-181/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 32 No. 11 (March 17, 1951) (ddr-pc-23-11)

Selected article titles: "Propose Compromise Plan to Speed Claims Payments. Celler Bill Would Permit Justice Department to Offer Three-Fourths of Loss Claims" (p. 1), "Persons of Japanese Descent Now Comprise 40 Per Cent of Population of Hawaii Islands" (p. 3), "Maturity of Nisei Americans Since Evacuation Noted by Writer in 'Frontier' Article" (p. 5).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-11/

doc Gila News-Courier Vol. III No. 42 (November 27, 1943) (ddr-densho-141-194)

Selected article titles: "Flowers Thanked by First Lady" (p. 1), "Editorial: WRA Has Done Well" (p. 1), "Myer Defends Relocation Before American Legion" (p. 1), "Army Wants No Part of Tule" (p. 1), "Writer Says: Issei Virtues Being Neglected" (p. 1), "Exclusion Laws Repeal Seen" (p. 4), "'Internees May Go to Tule'" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-141-194/

doc Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 12 (May 15, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-179)

Selected article titles: "Prejudice is Held Reason for Curfew. Lieut. Gen. DeWitt's Orders Scored in Supreme Court" (p. 1), "Evacuees' Return to Coastal Area Debated in House" (p. 1), "Transfer of Lt. Gen. DeWitt Confirmed by War Department" (p. 1), "Minidoka Leads in Number of Leaves Granted" (p. 1), "Critical Writer Shortage! SOS!" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-179/

vh Hisaye Yamamoto Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1002-10-15)

Early ambitions to be a writer

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-10-15/

Narrator Hisaye Yamamoto

Nisei female. Born August 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, California. Raised in California before mass removal to Parker Dam Assembly Center, Arizona, which was later converted into Poston concentration camp. An aspiring writer, worked for the camp newspaper, the Poston Chronicle, while incarcerated. After leaving camp, returned to California and worked for the Los Angeles Tribune. …

https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/143/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 109, No. 10 (October 6, 1989) (ddr-pc-61-35)

Selected article titles: "'Never Hated Them Before, But I Do Now' Says Letter Writer of Asians in America" (p. 1), "Senate Approves Redress as Entitlement"(p. 1), "Non-Nikkei Groups Supporting Redress Push Honored by JACL" (pp. 1, 3), and "Proposed Little Tokyo Nisei War Monument to Focus on WWII Record of 13,639 Veterans" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-61-35/

doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 159 (December 24, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-244)

Selected article titles: "President Truman Orders FEPC to Report Discriminatory Practices"; "On the Other Hand"; "Proper Decorum of Japanese Americans at Social Affair Impresses Writer"; "Don't Crowd Up Boys! Fan Dancer Will be Visible to All at Dance"; "Attorney General Reveals 5,428 Japanese Checked"; "Repatriates Prove to be Headache"; "Leave for Japan"; "Chicagoans Ready for Relocation …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-148-244/

av Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (ddr-densho-1024-37)

One of the earliest documentaries to broach the topic of Japanese American wartime incarceration, Mitsuye and Nellie profiles Asian American poets Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong, showing them reading their poetry, meeting their family and visiting the Minidoka and Angel Island sites. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-37/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 28 No. 25 (December 28, 1946) (ddr-pc-18-52)

Selected article titles: "Nisei Parents File California Suit Against Education Code Permiting Race Segregation" (p. 1), "Sociologist Finds Persons With Greater Knoweldge of Nisei Have Most Favorable Attitude" (p. 1), "Writer Charges Evacuees Victims of 'Great Swindle'. Japanese Americans Lost Farms, Businesses, Homes During Crisis, Declares Smith" (p. 3), "Book Review: The Spoilage is the Story …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-18-52/

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