| Title: |
Miyoko Fujikawa
|
| Document type: |
Oral history
|
| Accessibility: |
Free Only
|
| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
|
| Collection: |
Asian Americans: South Bay/Los Angeles Nisei
|
| Description: |
Miyoko Fujikawa was born in Reedley, California and grew up in Harbor City, California. Fujikawa was imprisoned at Santa Anita Racetrack and the concentration camp in Jerome, Arkansas. After leaving the camp, she worked as a beautician in Minneapolis, Minnesota during WWII and purchased her own beauty shop when she resettled in California. Fujikawa raised four sons in Gardena.
|
| Original Language: |
English
|
| Audio: |
[Audio available]
|
| Speaker: |
Fujikawa, Miyoko
|
| Speaker gender: |
Female
|
| Speaker place of birth: |
Reedley, CA; California; United States; North America
|
| Speaker race: |
Asian
|
| Speaker occupation: |
Beautician
|
| Document date: |
Undated
|
| Organizations discussed: |
Jerome Relocation Center, Jerome, AR
|
| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
|
| Locations discussed: |
Arkansas; Asia; California; Japan; Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota; North America; Reedley, CA; United States
|
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Arkansas; Asia; California; Japan; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans--California; Jerome Relocation Center, Jerome, AR; Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota; North America; Oral history; Reedley, CA; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
|
| ASP release: |
2007-01
|
| Document code: |
OHI0035144-38712
|
