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Legacies Project Oral History: David Yamamoto

David Yamamoto was born in 1938 in San Jose, California. He grew up in a predominantly Japanese American community. When he was four, his family was forced to move to an internment camp, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, in Wyoming. The discrimination his family faced during and after World War II shaped his life profoundly. Yamamoto graduated from San Jose State University and got his PhD in special education from Stanford. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship to support his career in educational administration. He has spoken out against civil rights violations throughout his adult life.

David Yamamoto was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2016 as part of the Legacies Project.

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Legacies Project Oral History: Alice Sano

Alice Sano was born in 1929 in Los Angeles, California. When the U.S. entered WWII, her family was forced to move to an internment camp along with other Japanese immigrants. Eventually her father secured a job teaching Japanese to army military intelligence students at the University of Michigan, and they moved to Ann Arbor. Sano majored in music theory and cello at the U-M School of Music, and dedicated her career to teaching music.

Alice Sane was interviewed by students from Skyline High School in Ann Arbor in 2018 as part of the Legacies Project.

Yuzuru Takeshita, Survivor Of Japanese Internment Camps, With Scrapbook, April 25, 1990 Photographer: Marcia Watson

Yuzuru Takeshita, Survivor Of Japanese Internment Camps, With Scrapbook, April 25, 1990 image
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1990
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Ann Arbor News, April 25, 1990
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Yuzuru Takeshita shows a scrapbook of himself as a high school student in Japanese internment camps during World War II

Sowing Seeds Of Peace

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1995
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Japanese Internment A Stain On Our History

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16
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February
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1992
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