Category: Persistence and Endurance: the Nikkei Experience
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Historic Statement Made by Floyd Mori, JACL National President, to the Japanese American Resisters 2002
2002 — S. Floyd Mori, the National President of the Japanese American Citizens League, delivered a historic statement at the JACL Resisters Ceremony at the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California in San Francisco.
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S. Floyd Mori: A Tenure of Advocacy, An Apology to the Resisters
S. Floyd Mori is a prominent figure in the Japanese American community and former national leader of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). In this interview, he provides critical insights into social justice activism within the Japanese American community, and describes the lead up to his historic apology to the Nikkei resisters to the Japanese…
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NO! THERE WERE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA, THAT IS THE TRUTH!
Paper media collage by Stan Nishimura 2023 I was in the first or maybe second grade; 6 or 7 years old. A group of us in theschoolyard. My parents and other relatives moved from Poston, Arizona to the inner city of Denver. So, this group in the playground was lower working class made-up with Blacks,…
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Reflections on a Journey to Topaz
A long-awaited family reunion at Topaz, a World War II Japanese internment camp in remote Utah, reanimates a swell of memories from the past. By Steven Yip Originally from artseverywhere This is dedicated to the memory of my brother-in-law Dean Hedani. He may have been a founding partner of the San Francisco law firm Hedani, Choy,…
