After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics

Photographs

Top: A section of the Winona Housing Project, Burbank, California, in November 1945, where trailer homes were provided for returned evacuees while they were securing permanent homes in and around Los Angeles. Photographer: Tom Parker. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Bottom: Miné Okubo, Nisei, who resettled to New York from the Topaz Center, is showing one of her drawings to Read Lewis, executive director of the Community Council for American Unity, and M. Margaret Anderson, editor of the Council quarterly, Common Ground, at the opening of an exhibit of Okubo’s drawing and paintings of center life under the Council’s auspices, March 6, 1945, at the American Common, New York. Photographer: Toge Fujihira. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Above: Unpacking belongings in a temporary trailer home at the Winona Housing Project in Burbank, California, where returned evacuees found temporary living quarters until they were able to secure homes in or around Los Angeles, November 1945. Photographer : Tom Parker. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California , Berkeley. Opposite, Top: Joe Oyama, Asami Kawachi Oyama, and Carol Levy cleaning up the supper dishes in the kitchen of the New York City apartment they shared with several other evacuees, April 25, 1944. Prior to evacuation to Santa Anita the preceding May, Mr. Oyama was assistant editor of the English section of a Japanese American daily in Los Angeles, and Mrs. Oyama was studying journalism at Los Angeles City College. While at Santa Anita, they were both on the staff of the Pacemaker, he as city editor and she as women’s editor. He kept up with his journalistic interest by serving as editor of the News Letter of the Japanese-American Committee for Democracy . Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Opposite, Bottom: While lunching in one of New York City’s famous Automat restaurants just off Fifth Avenue, May Tomio, Granada, and Akira Kashiki, Colorado River, obtained pieces of pie from the food receptacles, August 1944. Photographer: Hikaru Iwasaki. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Opposite, Top: Ken Shimizu, extreme left, meets other delegates of various racial backgrounds during the City-Wide Unity Conference held in New York City on March 17, 1945, at the Society for Ethical Culture under the auspices of the Interracial Youth Committee. Others shown with Shimizu are, left to right, Theodora Jaffe, of Jewish descent, a student at the Fieldston School of Ethical Culture; JoAnn McKee, born in Germany, who came to the United States just before the outbreak of World War II, representing Christ Church–Methodist; and Charles Speed, a student at Frederick Douglas Junior High School, representing the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Photographer: Toge Fujihira. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Opposite, Bottom: Kiichi Uyeda from Manzanar (right), the first returnee to Little Tokyo, now Bronzeville, Los Angeles, opens the Bronzeville 5-10-25 Cents Store, assisted by his friend Matsuo Yoshida from Colorado River, May 14, 1945. Photographer: Charles E. Mace. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Miné Okubo, frontispiece for Robert O’Brien, The College Nisei, 1949. Courtesy Estate of Miné Okubo. Top Left: S. I. Hayakawa, ca. 1946, by Ken Uyehara. Courtesy Hayakawa family. Top Right: Forrest LaViolette. Courtesy Tulane University. Bottom Right: Hugh Macbeth Jr., by Toyo Miyatake. Courtesy Hugh Macbeth Jr. Opposite: Cover, Crossroads, 1948. Courtesy Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Larry Tajiri, in his days as Denver Post drama critic. Courtesy Tajiri family. ...