| Title: |
George Tenpo
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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: |
George Joji Tenpo was born in Compton, California and grew up in Harbor City, California. Tenpo was imprisoned at Santa Anita Race Track and at a concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas. Later he was sent to the concentration camp at Tule Lake, California and an internment camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tenpo repatriated to Japan where he lived in poverty until he returned to Torrance, California in 1951. Tenpo started a gardening business and retired in 1955.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Tenpo, George Joji
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Compton, CA; California; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Gardener
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Jerome Relocation Center, Jerome, AR; Tule Lake War Relocation Center, Modoc County, CA
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| Historical events discussed: |
Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Compton, CA; New Mexico; North America; Santa Fe, NM; Torrance, CA; Tulelake, CA; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
California; Compton, CA; Gardening; Gardens; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans--California; Jerome Relocation Center, Jerome, AR; New Mexico; North America; Oral history; Santa Fe, NM; Torrance, CA; Tule Lake War Relocation Center, Modoc County, CA; Tulelake, CA; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035157-38725
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