| Title: |
May Minami
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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: |
May Minami has lived in Gardena, California most of her life; her father was the first person to sell insurance to other Japanese community members. During WWII, she endured the FBI arrests of her parents and lived in a US concentration camp in Rohwer, Arkansas.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Minami, May
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Storekeeper
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Rohwer Relocation Center, Rohwer, AR
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Arkansas; California; Gardena, CA; North America; Rohwer, AR; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Arkansas; California; Gardena, CA; Japanese American families; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; North America; Oral history; Rohwer Relocation Center, Rohwer, AR; Rohwer, AR; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035152-38720
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