121 results for: Japanese American Incarceration
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Oral history interview with Maurice Carlson, January 8, 1985
Interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy with Maurice Carlson for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on January 8, 1985. Carlson was born in Seattle on February 16, 1915. He spent his career as a clerk and later secretary in the Seattle police department.During World War II, Maurice Carlson worked as a night shift clerk for the Seattle police…
ID Number:1985.134.3
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Mildred and Parker Cook, December 6, 1984
Interview with Mildred and Parker Cook conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on December 6, 1984. In the interview, they discuss Garfield High School's response to the attack at Pearl Harbor, the incarceration of Japanese American students from Garfield after the attack, shifts in the African American community during the war, and curriculum…
ID Number:1985.134.4
Date:1984
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Oral history interview with Ewen Dingwall, January 23, 1985
Interview with Ewen C. Dingwall, the executive secretary to Mayor William Devin during World War II, conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on January 23, 1985. Topics discussed include Japanese American incarceration, civil defense volunteering, and wartime efforts to expand the Seattle Planning Commission's mission to include long-term planning. He also discusses his…
ID Number:1985.134.5
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Doris Eason, March 23, 1985
Interview with Doris Eason conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on March 23, 1985. In the interview, Eason discusses developments in housing and race relations during World War II, her pursuit of racial integration through her work at the Seattle Housing Authority, and what she saw of war work recruits' experiences, Black servicemen's…
ID Number:1985.134.6
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Aki Kurose, January 31, 1985
Interview with Aki Kurose conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project in 1985. In this interview Kurose discusses being incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center and the Minidoka Relocation Center, how the concentration camps undermined the traditional closeness of Japanese-American families, her family's response to Pearl Harbor, and her experience of being part of…
ID Number:1985.134.9
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Henry MacLeod, March 26, 1985
Henry MacLeod was born in 1911 in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a BA degree at University of Washington in 1932. He joined the Seattle Times in 1932 and worked as the city editor during World War II. This interview with MacLeod, conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on March 26, 1985, discusses the…
ID Number:1985.134.10
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Frank Miyamoto, April 23, 1985
S. Frank Miyamoto was born in 1912 in Seattle to Issei immigrants. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1936) and Master of Arts (1938) degrees in sociology from the University of Washington. His first faculty appointment was at the University of Washington in 1941 -- an appointment that was terminated when he was forceably removed due to his Japanese heritage.…
ID Number:1985.134.16
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with G. Spencer Reeves, May 21, 1985
G. Spencer Reeves worked in health education during World War II and taught first aid and swimming during the war. In this iInterview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on May 21, 1985. He speaks about the University of Washington campus experience during the war and justifies Japanese American incarceration because of fear.…
ID Number:1985.134.19
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Edith Robertson, January 6, 1985
Edith Robertson was born in Kansas City. She moved to Spokane in the early 1930s and Seattle in 1933. She worked as a waitress and a beautician before going to work in the shipyards during World War II. In this interview conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on January 6, 1985, Robertson recalls…
ID Number:1985.134.20
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Tomo Shoji, April 10, 1985
Interview with Tomo Shoji about her experiences before and during World War II, conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project, April 10, 1985. She discusses her parents' arrival in the U.S. and their work in a sawmill camp. Her mother later moved to Seattle and set up a midwifery practice for the Japanese community.…
ID Number:1985.134.22
Date:1985