| Title: |
Frances Midori Kaji
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Asian Americans: South Bay/Los Angeles Nisei
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| Description: |
Fran Kaji grew up in Gardena as the daughter of pioneer physician Kikuwo Tashiro. She remembers Gardena as it changed form a rural to suburban community. Her family moved to Fresno to avoid incarceration but was eventually imprisoned at the concentration camp at Poston, Arizona.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Kaji, Frances Midori
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Activist
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Poston War Relocation Center, La Paz County, AZ
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; California; Colorado; Denver, CO; Gardena, CA; Japan; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Agricultural laborers; Asia; California; Colorado; Concentration camps--United States; Denver, CO; Gardena, CA; Japan; Japanese American families; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; North America; Oral history; Poston War Relocation Center, La Paz County, AZ; Sugar beet; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035148-38716
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