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TitleLetter regarding release from Seabrook Farms [sic]
Date Created1947-09-08
DescriptionIn September 1947, Takeda was released to the custody of his attorney Wayne Collins, a leading civil liberties lawyer who represented both Nisei and Japanese Peruvians. Collins arranged for Takeda to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitlePortrait of Concepcion Valdes-Munoz.
Date Created1962
DescriptionConcepcion Valdes-Munoz emigrated from her native Cuba after the Cuban revolution in 1959. Though she had studied at the University of Havana and been an active lawyer in Cuba, she was forced into...
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TitleNegros in Professional Service (Both Sexes) New Jersey 1930, Statistics from The Negro Wage Earner of New Jersey.
Date Created1935
DescriptionThis is a chart from a study done by Dr. Egerton Elliot Hall of the unequal distribution of employment across races, particularly concerning African Americans and white Americans throughout the 1910s...
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TitlePaul Robeson―Rutgers College Cap and Skull Portrait, 1919.
Date Issued1919
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TitleAlien registration card
Date Created1947-09-08
DescriptionSenichiro Takeda renounced his U.S. citizenship in protest of his incarceration. In September 1947, still detained at Tule Lake, he was issued an alien registration card.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleFamily posing outside of barracks
Date Created1942-1945
DescriptionThe Takedas were sent to the Tule Lake concentration camp in northeastern California, where "no-nos" who rejected the loyalty questionnaire were sent as dissenters ineligible for parole.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleInterview with Fred Tadashi
Date Created2010-07-29
DescriptionFred Tadashi Shingu, who renounced his citizenship and was sent to Tule Lake, discusses relocating to Seabrook Farms after the war.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter regarding cancellation of renunciation of citizenship
Date Created1958-10-29
DescriptionIt took until 1958 for the federal courts to reach a decision in Takeda's case. A letter from Collins notes that in the end, the judge ruled that Takeda's renunciation of his citizenship was never...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleInterview with Elsa Kudo
Date Created2012-02-06
DescriptionElsa Kudo describes the first time she realized that she had been labelled an "illegal entry." Like other Japanese Peruvians, the Peruvian government had stripped of her legal documents and forcibly...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleHand-drawn map of Crystal City internment camp, Texas
Date Created1945
DescriptionUnlike Japanese Americans, who were detained by the military, Japanese Peruvians were detained by the Justice Department. The Justice Department incarcerated Japanese Peruvians and other Latin...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)