CWRCI Hearing, July 14, 1981
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1980s
notes: label: Description
content: Contact sheet of negatives by George Wakiji documenting the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings in Washington, D.C. Name stamp of George Wakiji on back; an address label (George M. Wakiji/5820 Iron Willow Court/ Alexandra, VA 22310) affixed to back covering another, perhaps previous address. Photo label of those depicted affixed on reverse.
label: Description
content: The CWRIC was a bipartisan commission formed by President Jimmy Carter to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066) and the incarceration of American citizens, as well as the mistreatment of the Alaskan natives of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands. The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July 14th and 16th, 1981. . It features members of commission and captures the testimonies from Gordon Hirabayashi, Min Yasui, and Mari Michener. Mari Michener (née Sabusawa) was Michener’s third wife and a second-generation Japanese American who was incarcerated with her family, first at the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, then at Grenada in Colorado, before being released to attend Antioch College in Ohio. Both Yasui and Hirabayashi were plaintiffs in Supreme Court challenges to Japanese incarceration.
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content: The people in the highlighted cells are as follows:
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content: 13 Chiye Tomihiro (Chicago), Mari Sabusawa Michener (St. Michaels, MD)
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content: 23 Mike M. Masaoka
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: Subject
content: Congress
label: Subject
content: World War II
label: Subject
content: Japanese Americans
label: related event
content: Japanese American Internment
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3020.18
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3020.18
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contact sheet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver gel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 in; 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm