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Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Mas Hongo
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Mas Hongo. Conducted by Kayoko Aoki on July 3, 2009, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Stephanie Swarthout. Edited by Watsunya Ferreira.The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project is a series of oral history interviews of participants of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage from 1994 - 2010. The project was conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., in collaboration with the Tule Lake Committee
Excerpt, Oral History Interview, Shigeru Miyaki
No full textExcerpt, summary, and index of an oral history interview of Shigeru Miyaki. Conducted by Sachiko Takita Ishii on July 4, 2009, in Klamath Falls, OR. Transcribed by Watsunya Ferreira. Edited by Rosalyn Tonai and Brandon H. Unruhe.The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project is a series of oral history interviews of participants of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage from 1994 - 2010. The project was conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., in collaboration with the Tule Lake Committee
Oral History Interview, James Hirabayashi
No full textRecording of an oral history interview with Dr. James Hirabayashi.
Video made available by the National Japanese American Historical Society on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/537041733The Tule Lake Pilgrimage Oral History Project is a series of oral history interviews of participants of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage from 1994 - 2010. The project was conducted by the National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc., in collaboration with the Tule Lake Committee.Index:
00:00:00 Returning to Tule Lake for the first time since 1942; experience in the surrounding area and working in Road Crew with friends; parents owned a grocery store before the war
00:02:59 Growing up in the White River Valley surrounded by other Japanese Americans; discovering how his family lost land in a 1924 court case.
00:06:10 Education and career: studying Cultural Anthropology at the University of Washington, getting the Fulbright scholarship to Tokyo University, pursuing his Ph.D. at Harvard, working for San Francisco State University; switching focus to Ethnic Studies
00:09:46 Involvement in civil rights activism; advising the Asian American Political Alliance at the time of the Third World Student Strikes
00:13:17 Working in Nigeria during the Biafran Civil War; Ethnic Studies program and strikes; recognizing his experiences as a Japanese American elsewhere in the world
00:17:29 Re-examining his wartime experience while developing the Ethnic Studies program 00:20:05 The Board of Trustees controlling education; attending school at Tule Lake without proper
resources; working on a farm; parents attend brother Gordon Hirabayashi’s trial; moving to Spokane and finishing high school; moving to Washington and beginning study at the University of Washington
00:26:28 Experience attending the Tule Lake Pilgrimage; remembering what it was like to be in camp as a 15 year old
00:30:17 Discussion of current (2009) issues in relation to the Japanese American wartime injustice; Japanese Americans forming coalitions with other groups; the importance of the Tule Lake Pilgrimage
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San Francisco Foghorn Volume 106 Issue 2
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San Francisco Foghorn Volume 106 Issue 5
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