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Description
One oral history transcription and one memoir concerning the biographical histories of two former Terminal Island residents, Kimiye Okuno Takeuchi Ariga and Mary Hirashima. The Terminal Island Personal Histories Collection features one transcribed oral history, one autobiography, and a possible rough draft edition of a book entitled, "Terminal Island: An Island in Time, Collection of Personal Histories of Former Islanders 1994-1995," which compiles 34 more transcribed oral histories, biographies, and autobiographies of the Japanese American residents who lived on Terminal Island before being forcibly removed in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Type
text
Format
Oral histories; Interviews; Biographies; Transcriptions 9 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, typescript; 9 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, typescript application/pdf
Geographic communities--California--Terminal Island Community activities Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles Identity and values--Issei Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Family Identity and values--Parents Identity and values--Men Identity and values--Women Immigration and citizenship--Arrival Industry and employment--Fishing and canneries Japan--Post-World War II Race and racism World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--'Evacuation Day World War II--Incarceration camps--Medical care and health issues World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Expatriation/repatriation/deportation Reflections on the past
Place
Terminal Island, California Los Angeles, California Manzanar, California Parker, Arizona Crystal City, Texas Missoula, Montana Mie Prefecture, Japan Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River) Department of Justice Internment Camps--Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camps--Fort Missoula Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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