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Incarceration - United States - Resources by Site - California

"Return to the Valley is a documentary and educational project launched by KTEH in 2003. The documentary that premiered on PBS in June 2003, is a one-hour program about the resettlement experiences of Japanese Americans after World War II. The documentary is set in the Santa Clara, Salinas, and Pajaro Valleys and the Central Coast region--areas once well known for strawberry farming and fishing. The themes of strength, perseverance and the resiliency of the human spirit transcend geography and time in this moving reflective historical documentary."
Profile of Kanshi Stanley Yamashita (1924-2005), born into a Terminal Island fishing family that was interned at Poston, Arizona. After his retirement, he earned a Ph.D. in comparative culture from the University of California, Irvine, writing his dissertation -- Terminal Island: ethnography of an ethnic community: its dissolution and reorganization to a non-spatial community (1985) -- on the community in which he was raised.
Yamashita's obituary appeared in the April 14, 2005 edition of The Herald of Randolph, Vermont.
  • Charles Kikuchi, The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle From An American Concentration Camp, The Tanforan Journals of Charles Kikuchi. Edited by John Modell. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973.
    • David Dufault, Review. The Journal of San Diego History 20, no. 4 (Fall 1974), Book Reviews section.
Full texts of two articles describing television documentaries addressing different aspects of the Japanese American incarceration. Includes Sam Chu Lin's article from the May 30, 2003 Nichi Bei Times profiling San Jose public television station KTEH's film, "Return to the Valley", and an unattributed article (presumably from the Sacramento Bee) profiling Sacramento public television station KVIE's production, "Forced Out: Internment and the Enduring Damage To California’s Cities and Towns".
As part of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries' Local History initiative, web librarian Pedersen has led the compilation and transcription of virtually every published reference to Japanese Americans appearing in Santa Cruz area newspapers between 1941-1946. The articles are arranged chronologically, while selections are also presented in thematic groupings.
"By using quotations and full-text articles from contemporary local newspapers, these Web pages begin to show what happened to Santa Cruz County Japanese, Japanese-Americans, and Italians because of Executive Order 9066. These Web pages aim to contribute to their story, outlining events and revealing attitudes and prejudices."
  • Mary Yogi, "Proposal". UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, May 4, 2004.
Graduate seminar paper proposal (Historical Methodology of Information Studies) on Clara Estelle Breed (1906-1994), a librarian for the city of San Diego, who maintained correspondence with many Japanese American children interned in concentration camps. Includes useful bibliographies of primary and secondary sources on Breed, Japanese Americans in the San Diego area, and Japanese American internment.
"My paper will examine the life of Miss Breed (as she was known to her young patrons), and focus on her interactions with the San Diego children sent to “relocation centers” during World War II. Clara Breed continued to be a librarian to these children by sending them books – but also became a trusted friend, supporter, and a lasting connection to their hometown of San Diego."
"This exhibit highlights the Museum's collection of letters written to San Diego librarian Clara Breed by Japanese Americans interned in World War II concentration camps."
The on-line exhibition includes home movies and brief oral history clips documenting the camp experience.


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Pinedale

"From 7 May 7 to 23 July 1942, the Pinedale Assembly Center housed a total of 4,823 evacuees, with a maximum of 4,792 at a time. The evacuees were from Sacramento and El Dorado counties, and Oregon and Washington."
  • Pinedale Assembly Center Memorial Project Committee, "Position Paper". Central California Nikkei Foundation, Nikkei Service Center. Newsletter, December 2005, p. 5.
A memorandum to the Fresno City Council in support of the nomination by the city's Historic Preservation Commission of Building 8 to be added to Fresno's Local Register of Historic Resources.
"The memorial is scheduled to be completed within two years. It will include a water fountain and a story board telling the story of the Pinedale Assembly Center — information about the internment and the people who lived there, including those who served this country in the military during the war."
"The House of Representatives passed two resolutions on Monday recognizing the injustice of the Japanese American internment and supporting a memorial at Pinedale Assembly Center."
"The Fresno City Council voted 6-0 on Tuesday to approve the creation of a memorial at the former site of the Pinedale Assembly Center in northwest Fresno where more than 4,800 Japanese Americans were temporarily detained during World War II."

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