Text / Letter from Ida Otani to Michi Weglyn, April 26, 1997
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- Title
- Letter from Ida Otani to Michi Weglyn, April 26, 1997
- Creator
- Otani, Ida: author
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1997-04-26
- Contributing Institution
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California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
- Collection
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CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
- Rights Information
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
- Description
- A letter from Ida Otani to Michi Weglyn about the firing of Japanese American railroad workers during World War II. Otani describes the hardships her family went through after her father was fired by Western Pacific Railroad and the family was forced to vacate their home because it was on railroad property.
These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn.
- Type
- text
- Format
- Correspondence
2 pages, typescript
application/pdf
- Identifier
- chi_10_002
ucsb_chi_0129
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/12727
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Industry and employment--Railroads
World War II--Economic losses
World War II--Non-Incarcerated Japanese Americans
Redress and reparations
Race and racism--Discrimination
Geographic communities--Nevada
- Place
- Los Angeles, Califronia
- Source
- Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Relation
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California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8c53jvm/
Frank Chin Papers
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