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TitleYoung college students working on the corn line
Date Created1945-1946
DescriptionWhite officials in the South often prevented black agricultural laborers from migrating as seasonal laborers, and the agreement between Local 56, the STFU, and Seabrook Farms was described by Jack...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleCollege students working during summer months settle into their apartments and make use of the library facilities
Date Created1945-1946
DescriptionRecruited as part of an agreement between Local 56 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, which represented workers at Seabrook, and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), which represented cotton...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleAmerican Legion questionnaire
Date Created1953-01
DescriptionThe Seabrook chapter of the JACL provided a translated version of American Legion questionnaire. These questionnaires were meant to aid citizen hopefuls applying for naturalization and citizenship to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleNaturalization class students intent on listening to their teachers Mr. & Mrs. Berhbert Brauer of the American Legion
Date Created1952-1959
DescriptionSeabrook championed its “rehabilitation” of Japanese American citizens and immigrants requiring further "Americanization." When the 1952 Walter-McCarran Act permitted Asian immigrants to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleNewly naturalized citizen voting for the first time
Date Created1950
DescriptionSeabrook continued to document the "Americanization" of Issei and Nisei residents after Issei gained citizenship. Here, the camera captures an Issei man performing a quintessential act of democracy...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleCWRIC flyer
Date Created1981
DescriptionAfter extensive lobbying undertaken by Nisei activists and their third-generation children, in 1980 Congress created the Committee on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate the...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleWounded Japanese veterans at Seabrook
Date Created1942-1959
DescriptionJohnny "Pineapple" Kubota, Michi Nishiura, and Richard Ouchi pose for a picture at Seabrook. Kubota, on the left, lost his leg fighting in Italy and, after the war, convalesced in Atlantic City before...
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TitleJACL Evacuations Bill
Date Created1950-1959
DescriptionThe JACL lobbied Congress to pass Evacuation Claims Bill HR 3999, in order for former internees to recover property stolen from them after their incarceration. In 1951, Congress granted a settlement...
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TitleGold Star Mothers
Date Created1953
DescriptionThe women pictured here are “Gold Star Mothers,” an honorary designation given to women whose sons died in the war. Here, the Japanese Americans Citizens League celebrates their newfound...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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Title127 newly naturalized citizens take an oath as new citizens in the auditorium of the Seabrook Community House, June 25, 1953
Date Created1953-06-25
DescriptionJapanese-American Citizens' League naturalization class
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)