CWRIC Hearing, July 16,1981
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1980s
label: Associated Date
content: 1981-07-16
notes: 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.
label: Description
content: The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July, 16 1981. It features members of commission and captures the testimonies from Yasui Tsujimura, Sasha Hohri, and William Hohri. William Hohri served as the lead plaintiff on the National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) class action lawsuit. He was also an important figure in the redress movement.
label: Description
content: Corresponds with the list of names, accession number 2016.3020.11
label: Description
content: The highlighted cell depicts Tsujimura, Yasui, Sasha Hohri, Nakano, and William Hohri.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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
setName: label: See more items in
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: 2016.3020.10
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3020.10
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