Sentences with phrase «california internment»

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

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I had a chance to meet Robin Koda, one of the two owners of California's oldest family owned rice farm and was excited to tell her how much I appreciated her for sharing her family's story on NBC of settling in California, enduring internment camps, and carrying on their family business.

Like the story of Harvey Itano, a Japanese - American chemist who faced hardships in WWII internment camps in California.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Heidi Yamada (1950 - 1990) was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Tetsu and Megumi Yamada, survivors of the Manzanar Internment Camp during World War II.

And finally the harmonica turns up in Southern California in 1942 in the hands of Ivy Maria Lopez, a young Mexican - American girl whose family's fortune changes after a Japanese family is sent to an internment camp.

This book details Korematsu's upbringing in California, imprisonment for resisting internment, quest to legally marry his white wife, and 40 - year legal battle.

Born in 1926 in rural California to Japanese immigrants, Asawa and her family were relocated to two internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.

Born in rural California, Asawa began to make art while detained in internment camps for Japanese Americans at Santa Anita, California, and Rohwer, Arkansas, where she was sent with her family in 1942 - 1943.

She began to make art in earnest while living in internment camps in California and Arkansas, in 1942 - 43; she received pointers from several fellow - detainees, who were animators at Walt Disney.

Born in Southern California in 1926, Ruth Asawa was confined to internment camps during World War II.

Recent Acquisitions (May) The Oakland Museum of California reopens, renovated and expanded, with a show of new additions to its collection plus the late Miné Okubo's pictorial diary of her internment camp ordeal.