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Title
Letter from Sigeki Hiratsuka to Mrs. [Dorothy] Nakamura, July 2, 1991
Creator
Hiratsuka, Sigeki: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1991-07-02
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Correspondence from Shigeki Hiratsuka to Dorothy Nakamura regarding Hiratsuka's activism in gaining support for restitution payments to incarcerated non-Japanese individuals. Includes a copy of a letter from Hiratsuka to Jim Kolbe, member of the United States House of Representatives for Arizona's 5th congressional district covering the same issue.
The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages; 11 x 8.5 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jaac_2168
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/12029
Language
English
Subject
Redress and reparations--Impact of redress movement
Post-World War II
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Place
Tucson, Arizona
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Japanese American Archival Collection

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