c. Host nearly 100 years ago. Were they allowed to become citizens . Japanese immigrants could become citizens 1952. I believe that the grandparents never better round to it. Host weather were dave boren did they live here in Southern California . My family lived in orange katy he did a range of things he was of lumberjack they lived in Southern California my mother was born. Host professor at ucla be drawn location at ucla talking to professors about their book. You did not know the would to your Family History but your book is called city girls. During world war ii where were your parents . My mothers family was incarcerated then sent to utah. If fathers family ended up in the larger of the camps in arizona. As luck would have it both of those began nanas racetracks. People wouldve on horseback only if they could be vacated by the horses. Host did your parents talk about that . Neither did. Host who are you talking about in your book . The city grows . The Second Generation that have
I was taking notes. Not like i was making but it turned out at the hand of our interview retired for several hours and when i got to build a given my credit card to pick up the tab, he said you really dont look anything like i expected. I thought you were paul. I immediately knew what it happened. There is another Ken Silverstein in West Virginia who writes a lot about the oil industry. He writes her trade industry publication and is very, very i would say more sympathetic to the industry and circumspect than i am. So i felt obliged to say i think theres been a misunderstanding. But because of that misunderstanding, i did hear a lot of very interesting stories. And to her great credit, even afterwards she clearly was surprised when i said i am not that Ken Silverstein. As she continued to talk to me all along although it was originally the chapter is based on the piece for harpers magazine and has spoken with are much than then. Host so you close within. Why . Guest truly because its a
And she realized that a number of her students, her pupils that brother serving in the military and she wanted to participate in the war effort, but she also wanted to give the growth of a meaningful to do. So she started a club called the crusaders and the crusaders became immensely popular. They were writing, sharing letters for servicemen, showing the first of the brothers and relatives and friends of her students and more and more gross joins the club because they wanted to help out and they were sending letters, postcards to thousands of servicemen. Yuri kochi llama herself wrote to 15,000 nisei soldiers by herself and the crusaders continued throughout the war and the servicemen were very enthusiastic and appreciative and found them a little money to help them out so eventually they were able to found real letters and to send envelopes. Host professor matsumoto, you said 15,000 letters were sent by one girl. Nisei were about to serve in the army, but otherwise interred. Is that a
Backward, there were about 120,000 japaneseamericans and two thirds of who were americanborn in the continental United States. On the eve of world war ii, 120,000 japaneseamericans in the United States. Who were in fact incarcerated when one hears the term, what does it mean . It means literally firstgeneration and it refers to the japanese immigrant. It means Second Generation carefirst of u. S. Citizens americanborn children. Is there a Third Generation as well . Yes, there is. So your printers came to the United States . Yes, my mother and father came over 100 years ago. And there are family stories as to why they came. But certainly seeking Economic Opportunity and he went back when he was a teenager at the time and he went back later when he had earned enough money to bring back a wife. My grandmother was much younger. They were both teenagers from a small fishing area, my father and awful. When they were about 15 and 17. About a hundred years ago imax. They came in the late 19 hu
Forced me to look for the sunnyside of life and all of my coworkers who made it through those years at walter reed had some sort of outlet whether it was baking cakes or training for 100 mile running races or even keeping up with the highly complicated world of celebrity news. And all of us shared a dark sense of humor. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Here is a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. October 10th through twelfth the southern festival of books in downtown nashville hosts 200 authors and watch for booktvs coverage coming weeks. The following week from october 16th through nineteenth the wisconsin book festival in madison, wisconsin. The last weekend in october but the boston book festival and the texas book festival takes place and booktv will be live from austin all weekend. Let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and add them to our list, and we look at them at cspan. Org. Next, Da