ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
(Janice Marion Wright LaMoree)
ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリーは、J. マリオン・ライト氏の娘です。彼女の父親は、1913 年から 1970 年までの 57 年間、米国に住む日系二世および一世の弁護士および友人でした。彼は、彼らの信頼に感謝し、彼らの擁護者であることを誇りに思っていました。ライト氏の家族は、正義の追求における彼の功績の記録が全米日系人博物館に保存されていることを光栄に思っています。
2010年3月18日更新
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J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 6
2010年4月23日 • ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
Read Part 5 >>As the second and third generation of Japanese in the United States grew to maturity, a number of these young people became lawyers. They had none of the restrictions and difficulties which their predecessors had faced. They could help their own people. Marion Wright’s work with the Japanese tapered off somewhat but he still retained the respect and trust of his long-time clients and their families and continued to do legal work for them throughout the rest …
J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 5
2010年4月16日 • ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
Read Part 4 >>With the attack on Pearl Harbor, the attention of the entire nation was focused on the Japanese. Wright’s energies were directed almost exclusively toward the problems, which the Japanese in California faced as a result of the conflict. Most Americans and all Japanese in the United States and abroad know the sad story of the Japanese internment during World War II. By 1941 there were many Nisei, people of Japanese ancestry, who were citizens of the United …
J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 4
2010年4月9日 • ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
Read Part 3 >>After this case Marion’s services were in such demand that the majority of his practice was with the Japanese who were grateful to him for his interest in their welfare. Two actions which were forerunners of Marion’s most memorable legal victories were cases of escheat. This legal term has been used since the beginning of old English law. Escheat describes an action in which the governing body, in this case the State of California, takes over possession …
J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 3
2010年4月2日 • ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
Read Part 2 >>In 1913, the year of graduation from law school for Miyasaki and Wright, the Alien Land Act was passed by the California legislature. In short, it provided that land in the state could be owned only by those who were eligible for citizenship. The important phrase, eligible for citizenship, was a part of the Naturalization Act which was passed by the first United States Congress in 1790. Citizenship was to be given only to those who were …
J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 2
2010年3月26日 • ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
Read Part 1 >>It was in USC Law School that some friendships developed which were to change the course of many lives. Marion Wright became acquainted with two Japanese students, both aliens, who were studying law in the United States. One of these, Motohiko Miyasaki, returned to Japan soon after graduation. The other man, Sei Fujii, became a close friend. Fuji later became the founder and editor of the Japanese newspaper, Kashu Mainichi, and an ally on the long road …
J. Marion Wright: Los Angeles' Patient Crusader 1890-1970 - Part 1
2010年3月19日 • ジャニス・マリオン・ライト・ラモリー
Firehorses need exercise. For the youngsters on 15th Street in early Los Angeles, it was a thrill of a lifetime to sit on a big broad horse, legs astraddle, as the animal galloped up and down dusty Hill Street. Young boys were glad to “help” the firemen in this way. J. Marion Wright was one of these juvenile public servants. Although in later years as he drove down 15th Street he reflected upon the legalities and insurance aspects of such …
