Guide to the Karl Ichiro Akiya Papers, 1921-2002

Okubo, Miné, 1912-2001

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d. February 10, 2001. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 86162640 Painter, New York, N.Y. ; b. 1912., d. 2001, at age 88. Miné Okubo (1912-2001) was born in Riverside, CA, and educated at University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BA and MA degrees. After graduation she studied in Paris with Fernand Leger for eighteen months before returning to ...

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

United States. Office of Strategic Services

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The special operations Branch, Office of Strategic Services, London was charged with conducting in enemy or enemy-occupied territories of the European Theater, sabotage operations, the support and supply of resistance groups, and guerrilla warfare. From the description of OSS/London: Special Operations Branch and Secret Intelligence Branch war diaries, 1944, [microfilm]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122640182 ...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Tamotsu, Chūzō, 1888-1975

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Chuzo Tamotsu was born Febraury 19, 1891 in the Japanese village of Toguchi. He studied painting, both traditional Japanese and Western styles, under private tutors. He arrived in New York in 1920 and worked in a variety of two-dimensional media. From 1932-1938, Tamotsu worked on WPA (Works Progress Administration) Commissions. During World War II, he served the U.S. Army as a combat sketch artist. He became a founding member of the New York Artists' Equity Association in 1947. Tamotsu moved to ...

Nichibei Times.

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Abe, Yoshio

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Chinese Progressive Association (San Francisco, Calif.)

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National Rainbow Coalition (U.S.)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission

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Inoue Chamber Ensemble

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New York Bungei.

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Japanese American Citizens' League

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Founded in 1930, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is a membership organization whose mission is to secure and maintain the human and civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others victimized by injustice. The JACL has 112 chapters nationwide and eight regional districts with over 24,000 members found in 23 states. In addition to its national headquarters in San Francisco, the JACL has five regional offices (Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago), as well as ...

Yoneda, Karl Gozo, 1906-1999

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Yoneda was born in Glendale, CA, in 1906; studied in Japan, 1913-26; returned to the US, 1927; joined American Communist Party and launched career as a labor activist; a longshoreman by trade, he was affiliated with the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and also served as a CIO labor organizer; edited Rodo Shimbun (Japanese Labor News), the publication of the Japanese Bureau of the American Communist Party; wrote 5 books, 4 in Japanese; interned at the Manzanar Relocation Ce...

Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

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{Text of biographical or historical note, in paragraphs; separate each with paragraph tags} The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten relocation centers constructed as a result of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), which President Franklin Roosevelt signed into effect on February 19, 1942. The Center, located near the town of Cody in northwest Wyoming, held Japanese American internees from 1942-1945. The camp reached a maximum population of 10,767, making it the third largest settlement i...

U.S.ENGLISH (Organization)

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Japanese American United Church.

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Association of Black Social Workers

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Kawakami, Tamio, 1925-2012

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Central Utah Relocation Center

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Ishigaki, Ayako, 1903-1996

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Ayako Ishigaki, born Tanaka Ayako (1903 – 1996) in Tokyo, Japan. She first came to the United States in 1926. In 1931 she married the painter Eitaro Ishigaki. Following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, Ishigaki became outspoken in protesting the Japanese military aggression in China, and reported on Japan for the left-wing magazine The New Masses. Her articles emphasized the negative impact of imperialism and industrialism on Japanese workers, particularly women. She used the pseudony...

Spain. Ejercito Popular de la Republica. Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

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Shibata, Shingo, 1930-

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Japanese American Association of New York

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Tōkyō Ginkō.

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Akiya, Satoko.

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Japanese American Social Services, Inc. (JASSI)

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The Japanese American Social Services, Inc. (JASSI) was formed in 1981 by Midori Shimanouchi Lederer to address the lack of social services for aging Japanese Americans with limited English language skills and little access to information about social service programs. Starting with a staff of three workers, JASSI quickly grew to encompass assistance for a broad range of needs, including legal and immigration issues and family problems, expanding beyond just elder Japanese Americans. Currently t...

Shirai, Jakku, -1937

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Nihon Kyōsantō.

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Ariyoshi, Sawako, 1931-1984

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Hayashi, Tetsumaro.

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Hokubei Shimpo.

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Japanese American Help for the Aging, Inc.

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Kansei Gakuin Daigaku.

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Located in Nishinomiya. From the description of Records of the Kwansei Gakuin University, 1949. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702131840 ...

Akiya, Karl Ichiro, 1909-2001

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Labor and community activist Karl Ichiro Akiya (1909-2001) was born in San Francisco but at the age of six, sent to be educated in Japan. In 1927 he entered Kwansei Gakuin University (also known as Kansei Gakuin Daigaku), a Methodist school, for preparation in secondary school teaching where he studied Japanese and English language literature. During these years, Akiya fully immersed himself in extracurricular student life. He converted to the Methodist faith, was elected class chairman and part...