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Exclusion orders

Letter from C. Walter Borton and Homer L. Morris to Dear Friend, May 21, 1943

Report to people who have contributed financial support for the Gordon Hirabayashi case on the hearing before the Supreme Court. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: JAIC_1-07_02
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Letter to Dear Friend from the Gordon Hirabayashi Defense Committee, January 1943

Fundraising letter requesting contributions for taking Gordon Hirabayashi's case to the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. At the time of writing, Hirabayashi was imprisoned in King County, Washington. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: JAIC_1-07_01
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Letter encouraging activism in response to the exclusion order

A letter asking the reader to write letters to government officials, Henry L. Stimson, Charles M. Bonesteel, and Dillon S. Myer to protest the continued incarceration of Japanese Americans. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: HMRC_01-06_002
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Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry, C.E. Order 92

Exclusion orders and evacuation instructions for persons of Japanese ancestry residing in Sacramento and Amador counties. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1941
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Seattle

Frank Miyamoto Interview Segment 1

Prewar activities: attending the University of Washington, conducting a study of the Seattle Japanese American community for master's thesis

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 …


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Gene Akutsu Segment 2

Growing up around "Profanity Hill," Seattle, Washington
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Gene Akutsu Interview II Segment 1

Growing up in Seattle, Washington
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Exhibitions

George Kondo near a display of photographs taken at incarceration camps during World War II

A man is positioned next to a display board showing photographs and text. The caption above photograph reads, "SAN FRANCISCO, April 21--SEEKING INTERNMENT COMPENSATION-- George Kondo looks over a display of Japanese internment photographs taken during World Warr II, at the Japanese-American Citizen League in San Francisco Monday. Like 120,000 …
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Exhibit on evacuation, camp days to open Nov. 11 in Los Angeles

Newspaper clipping published in the Pacific citizen regarding an exhibit, "America's Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience" at the Japanese American National Museum. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2211
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Invitation to art exhibition at Tule Lake

Invitation to an open house and art exhibition at Tule Lake incarceration camp featuring watercolors by Cleone Norman and pencil drawings by Chiye Kuroiwa. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0136
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