Tag: interment

• An American, Too

  I found this interesting sign during a recent google adventure, and it led to some interesting research. Frank Tanaka immigrated to the USA in 1903, when he was 16 years old.  Twenty-nine years of hard work later he opened a popular Japanese restaurant in Salem, Oregon and became a respected businessman.  His story, told on…

  JunkChuck

  August 6, 2014

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  bigotry, hate, immigration, interment, japanese, oregon, paranoia, tule lake, war, world war 2