Title:

Nisei boys and girls in Chicago find a ready welcome in the Midwest schools. Here is an assembly class in ...

Date:

1944-01-06

Subject:

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

Full title:Nisei boys and girls in Chicago find a ready welcome in the Midwest schools. Here is an assembly class in the Evanston Township High School, Evanston, Illinois. In the left-hand row from front to back are: Aiko Harada, 16-year-old Los Angeles girl whose family came to Chicago from the Rivers relocation center in December, 1943. Her father is a cook. Francis Niwa, 16, from Tacoma, Washington, whose father, a Methodist minister, now teaches at the University of Chicago language school. The Niwa family is from Tule Lake. Francis works after school hours. In the right hand row, front to back are: Michi Matsumoto who came from the Poston center and before that from San Diego, California. She is 15 years old and has been in Evanston for six months. George Maruya from Poston who has been in Evanston since September, 1943 and works part-time as well as carrying a full school schedule. He is 16 years old and from Brawley, California; and John Hayakawa, 17-year-old Oakland, California youth who is working part-time. He is from Poston, where his parents still reside.<lb/> Chicago, Illinois.

WRA no. G-264

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement