Title:

Mrs. Ryozo Muto prepares to lead her Sunday School class in some songs. In February, 1941, Mrs. Muto bid her ...

Date:

1944-09

Subject:

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

Full title:Mrs. Ryozo Muto prepares to lead her Sunday School class in some songs. In February, 1941, Mrs. Muto bid her friends goodbye in the Granada Center. She left for Omaha, Nebraska, where her husband was employed as a mechanic in a garage. Not long after her arrival, Mrs. Muto was asked to take over the position as a Sunday School teacher of the high school girls at the Benson Baptist Church where she and her husband have been attending regularly. At the present time she has an enrollment of about twenty-five girls. During the summer, they have been studying Our Town and in the process visited the juvenile court in a study of juvenile delinquency. Mrs. Muto, who is employed as a stenographer in a down-town office, took time off from her work to chaperone the class on this visit to the court. Reverend Shelby Swift, pastor of the Church, states, We feel that it is a privilege to have Mr. and Mrs. Muto with us and be able to be of help to them. The Mutos are among our most faithful church-goers and are very well liked by our church family. Reverend Swift pointed out to his church group in announcing a picture would be taken, that they were happy to prove to the world that democracy is working in this country. The Mutos are former residents of Los Angeles, California.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Omaha, Nebraska.

WRA no. I-571

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement