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Activism and involvement
Japanese Canadians
Politics

Activism and involvement

College summer service in a relocation center

Call for college students to meet a "desperate need" by serving as group work leaders supporting community activities, arts and recreation, church vacation Bible schools, and boys and girls clubs in either the Gila River or Manzanar Incarceration Camp; flier states that such service would provide the students with the …
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Church Women Ask: How Can We Help Japanese American evacuees

Suggestions for church women on how to help Japanese Americans who are forced to evacuate. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: RSG_01-02
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Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to Chief of Police Schmidt [Willard E. Schmidt], February 3, 1944

Calls for special meeting of the Project Director, Advisory Council, and Co-ordinating Committee to discuss Committee recommendations, and refers to four attached memoranda, each from Co-ordinating Committee 1608-A to R. [Raymond] R. Best, Project Director, dated February 2, 1944 and written by Byron Akitsuki, Executive Secretary. Subjects of the memoranda …
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Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to the Advisory Council, February 18, 1944

Memo regarding peace movement headed by I. Uji of Block 53, Ward 6. Text provides Uji's full name (Iwao Uji) and also mentions June Sasaki and "Mrs. Matsuda" as other leaders of the peace movement; discusses their request for direct consultation with the Advisory Council. See this object in the …
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Japanese Canadians

Japanese-Canadians on a train to an incarceration camp

A few men look out the windows of a train while a group of men look up towards the train windows. The caption above the photo reads, "Internment Bound--Japanese-Canadians get in a final farewell as a train, bound for an internment camp, leaves Vancouver in 1942. No Canadian of Japanese …
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Japanese Canadians

Pamphlet on immigration, incarceration, and "resettlement" of Japanese Canadians during World War II. This is an issue, vol. VI, no. 2 of "Behind the headlines," a series of pamphlets on current problems, published by Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto, Canada. See this object in the California State Universities …
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The Northwest Times Vol. 1 No. 34 (May 6, 1947)

"House Unit Hearing on H.R. 2933 Finished" (p. 1), "Lifts Curbs on Japanese East of B.C." (p. 1), "Geisha Girls Are Having a Rough Time Under Allied Rule, It Says Here" (p. 4).
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Politics

Katsugo Miho Interview VII Segment 10

Enacting the Horizontal Property Regime Law
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Katsugo Miho Interview VII Segment 9

Deciding to join the Republican party
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Katsugo Miho Interview VII Segment 8

First getting involved in politics
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