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Support from the non-Japanese American community
Civil rights

Support from the non-Japanese American community

Tonko Doi Interview Segment 8

Hearing mother's recollections of camp
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Yoshimi Matsuura Interview Segment 13

Remembering some acts of kindness from friends and neighbors
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Chiyoko Yagi Interview Segment 18

Being visited in camp by non-Japanese friends from home
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Ernest Besig Interview Segment 3

The ACLU's position on the incarceration, and thoughts on the Japanese American Citizen's League

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, …

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Fred Okrand Interview Segment 1

Trying to create a test case with the ACLU to challenge the mass removal

This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews …

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Civil rights

Helen Harano Christ Interview Segment 14

Remembering some who expressed resentment about incarceration
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An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part II - Segment 1

An oral history with Sumiye Takeno, a current resident of Denver, Colorado. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The purpose of this interview was to gather information regarding Takeno's incarceration and resettlement experience during World War II. Specifically, the interview …
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An Oral History with Katsuma Mukaeda - Segment 1

Chairman of Japanese American Cultural Center and former president of Japanese Chamber of Commerce recounts conditions of prewar Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, its wartime conversion into a black community, postwar reestablishment as a Japanese-American cultural and commercial center. Includes comments on discriminatory legislation, prewar Japan-American relations. World War II removal …
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Kats Kunitsugu - Paul Tsuneishi Interview Segment 1

Reading of an essay written by a student in an concentration camp school

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An Oral History with Sumiye Takeno, Part I - Segment 1

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