Peter Okada oral history interview, part 3 of 6, April 9, 2000

0:00 - Describes the wealth he acculumated; circa 1939

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Keywords: exhausting; gardening; housing; prosperity

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3:27 - Discussing his career change; civil service

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Keywords: gardening; Hollenbeck Park; Los Angeles; parks and recreation; work ethic

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6:41 - Discussing Pearl Harbor impact on his civil service job

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Keywords: Los Angeles; Nisei; Pearl Harbor; race discrimination

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9:23 - Discussing follow up to losing the civil service job

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Keywords: Japanese Americans; Los Angeles; Mayor Tom Bradley; Nisei; restitution

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12:10 - Describes racial tensions in late childhood

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Keywords: high school; Japanese Americans; Japanese identity and values; Nisei; Nisei veterans; race discrimination

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14:43 - Describes recollections of Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: artillery; church; family; fishing; Japan; Japanese Americans; racism

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17:04 - Describes being evacuated

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Keywords: automobile; housing; Japanese Americans; possessions; property; racism

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20:23 - Describes his feelings about the evacuation

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Keywords: Executive Order 9066; Japanese Americans; reunion

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23:04 - Describes evacuation center; Santa Anita

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Keywords: Executive Order 9066; Japanese Americans; music; relocation centers; Santa Anita

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24:44 - Discussing moving from Santa Anita to Amache

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Keywords: Colorado; Executive Order 9066; internment camp; Japanese Americans; train; travel

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26:22 - Discussing his letter to Boys Town; Father Flanagan

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Keywords: Catholicism; civil rights; correspondence; refuge; social activism

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