Japanese in Florin, California
Author : Alice Margaret Brown
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Japanese
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Author : Alice Margaret Brown
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Japanese
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Author : Aaron Augustus Sargent
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Americanization
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Author : Michelle Trujillo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1467105910
First-generation Japanese Issei immigrants arrived in Florin in the 1890s, after attempts at profitable strawberry cultivation by Florin landowners had failed. By 1905, however, Issei farmers had developed effective techniques for growing strawberries that delivered a resurgence of the crop. The Issei farmers discovered that Florin's shallow hardpan grew strawberries and grapes well; these fruits would blossom into Florin's major cash crops and lead to the crowning of Florin as the "strawberry capital of the world." But Japanese successes were hard-earned in the face of racist organizations such as the Asiatic Exclusion League and laws like Executive Order 9066, signed by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. Florin was a community with a majority of Japanese Americans, but their forced removal--mandated by Roosevelt's order--dealt a crushing blow to the bustling agricultural town, as many Florin families never returned. The Japanese American Archival Collection (JAAC) was established in 1994 as an educational partnership between California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), and the Florin Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). The content collection was led by Florinite Mary Tsukamoto, an educator, author, and activist who was sent with her family to Japanese American concentration camps between 1942 and 1945.
Author : Alice Margaret Brown
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Japanese
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Author : Hillary A. Mimnaugh
Publisher :
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Hank Umemoto
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597142220
This intimate memoir offers a poignant, at times humorous account of Japanese American life in California before and after WWII. In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhouette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit. As Umemoto wanders through the mountains of California’s Inland Empire, he recalls pieces of his childhood on a grape vineyard in the Sacramento Valley, his time at Manzanar, where beauty and hope were maintained despite the odds, and his later career as proprietor of a printing firm—sharing it all with grace, honesty, and unfailing humor.
Author : Mary Tsukamoto
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
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Author : Alice Mary Brown
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
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Author : Kiyo Sato
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1569475695
When her father left Japan, his mother told him never to return: there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the Land of Opportunity even though he could not become a citizen. He and his wife started a farm and worked in the fields together with their nine children. At the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was 18, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. Though they had lived the US for two decades and their children were citizens, they were suddenly uprooted and imprisoned by the government.
Author : Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami
Publisher : New York, MacMillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 1921
Category : California
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