Title:
Oral history interview with Paul T. Bannai ... oral history transcript 1989Creator/Contributor:
Bannai, Paul T., 1920-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Douglass, Enid Hart, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Claremont Graduate School, Oral History Program.Creator/Contributor:
State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)Abstract:
Bannai relates his family background, early career, and World War II experiences, including his dedication to the reimbursement
of interned Japanese-Americans. He discusses his business career, service as an elected official in Gardena, elections to
the state assembly, assembly committee service, legislative leadership in the assembly, other Asians in the legislature, and
public service after he left the assembly.
Date:
[1989?] (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us---World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Acupuncturists -- Certification
Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Américains d'origine japonaise
Américains d'origine japonaise -- Relogement et internement forcés, 1942-1945
Américains d'origine japonaise -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Japanese Americans
California -- Los Angeles
California. -- Legislature. -- Assembly.
United States. -- Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.
California. -- Legislature. -- Assembly
United States. -- Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Bannai, Paul T -- 1920-
Brown, Jerry -- 1938-
Moretti, Robert -- 1936-
Reagan, Ronald
Bannai, Paul T -- 1920-
Brown, Jerry -- 1938-
Moretti, Robert -- 1936-
Reagan, Ronald
Note:
by Enid Hart Douglass.
Transcript of a six-and-one-half-hour interview completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate
School and the California State Archives, State Government Oral History Program.
Audiotape recording available.
Volume includes name index.
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
California State University, Fullerton. Library. Oral History Program.
California State University, Sacramento. Library. University Archives.
Honnold Library for the Associated Colleges, Claremont, Calif.
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.
Copyright to all program materials is assigned by the interviewee to both the Secretary of State, California State Archives,
and the program's cooperating institutions. Copies of interview transcripts can be procured from the State Archives. Tape
copies are not made for sale or for distribution outside the program.
Mr. Bannai's legislative bill files, 1973-1980 may be found at the California State Archives. 1020 "O" Street, Room 130, Sacramento,
CA 95814
Paul Bannai, a Japanese-American, was born in 1920. With his family, he was interned at Manzanar during World War II. Permitted
to go to Des Moines to attend college, he then volunteered for the Japanese-American regimental combat team, the 442nd, and
served as an interpreter with the Australians in the Pacific Theater. He established a real estate business in Gardena, and
in 1972, was elected to the Sixty-Seventh Assembly District seat, serving until his defeat in 1980. He then served as Executive
Director of the Commission of Wartime Relocation of Civilians briefly, and in 1981, was appointed chief director of the Memorial
Affairs Department of the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C. and served until 1986.
Type:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
iv, 253 leaves, bound : portrait ; 28 cm
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 91/83 cLOCAL
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
F866.4.B366 A3 1989Copyright Note:
Copyright to all program materials is assigned by the interviewee to both the Secretary of State, California State Archives,
and the program's cooperating institutions. Copies of interview transcripts can be procured from the State Archives. Tape
copies are not made for sale or for distribution outside the program.
Related Item:
Oral history interview with Paul T. Bannai ... oral history transcript 1989 : Bannai, Paul T., 1920- : [1989?] : (OCoLC)680662748
