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DESCRIPTION:Boyle Heights Historical Society and Little Tokyo Historical So
 ciety will be co-presenting\, Boyle Heights History Day\, on&nbsp\;Saturda
 y\, November 8 at 10:00 a.m.&nbsp\;to&nbsp\;4:00 p.m.&nbsp\;at the histori
 c Breed Street Shul at 247 N. Breed Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90033.&nbsp\
 ; The program includes music by Boyle Heights&rsquo\; The Neighborhood Mus
 ic School\, Rub&eacute\;n Guevara reading his &ldquo\;Yuriko &amp\; Carlos
 &rdquo\; short story\, screening of &ldquo\;Stand Up For Justice:&nbsp\; T
 he Ralph Lazo Story&rdquo\; by John Esaki\, writer and director\, vintage 
 photo displays and light refreshments.&nbsp\; The day will spotlight the c
 lose connections and friendships between the long ago Japanese American re
 sidents of Boyle Heights and the larger Boyle Heights neighborhood.&nbsp\;
 \n\nBHHS will feature an interview on and family members will fondly remem
 ber Molly Wilson Murphy\, an African American lady who held many friendshi
 ps with Japanese Americans before WWII and during the concentration camp y
 ears with her many letters she wrote to the internees.&nbsp\; Sadly\, Mrs.
  Murphy passed away one month ago due to natural causes.&nbsp\; Her letter
 s are now housed at the Japanese American National Museum.\n\nLTHS will ha
 ve a panel discussion on the former Japanese Hospital\, the nondescript bu
 ilding that was at 101 S. Fickett Street and First Street\, that has a ric
 h\,&nbsp\;but unknown history to the neighborhood.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;The story 
 of the Japanese Hospital is important to Boyle Heights\, Los Angeles\, Cal
 ifornia and U.S. history.&nbsp\; LTHS is now working on&nbsp\;the City of 
 Los Angeles&rsquo\; Historic-Cultural Monument application on the Japanese
  Hospital.&nbsp\; On the panel will be Carole Fujita\, Troy Kaji\, MD and 
 Kristen Hayashi.&nbsp\; Dr. Kaji is the grandson of the seminal figure\, D
 r. Kikuwo Tashiro\,&nbsp\;a Little Tokyo doctor who was the lead physician
 &nbsp\;in a successful U.S. Supreme Court case in 1928 that allowed the ho
 spital&nbsp\;to be built in 1929.
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SUMMARY:Boyle Heights History Day
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