Abstract

Typescript copy of "The Deportation of the Japanese from Toledo, Oregon," dated November 26, 1973. The document is a senior seminar research paper regarding the history of Japanese people in the Pacific Northwest and an incident concerning Japanese laborers at the Pacific Spruce Company in Toledo, Oregon. With bibliography.

Abstract This collection includes correspondence, personal papers, and photographs of three generations of the Yasui family. Major topics represented in the collection include the first (Issei) generation’s immigration to Oregon in the early 1900s; the family's business and community activities in Hood River, Oregon, through 1942; the forced removal and incarceration of Yasui family members during World War II; and advocacy for redress and on behalf of Japanese American history by members of the...