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| | Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project : Part I: Internees : a machine-readable transcription. |
 | | It was not, however, until she took part in a 1969 pilgrimage to the Manzanar site in Inyo County and, shortly thereafter, became the founding chair of the Manzanar Committee, a Los Angeles-based community activist group (whose membership included Amy Ishii), that Manzanar became her public identification badge. |
 | | Kikuchi, an Issei, was married to a Nisei, did not affiliate himself with "nationalistic" Japanese organizations (and thus not apprehended by the FBI following Pearl Harbor), "volunteered instead of being dragged to camp," and became an American citizen soon after Issei became eligible for naturalization in 1952. |
 | | It was at this temple, located in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles, that the two-hour interview with him was conducted, principally in Japanese, by Mariko Yamashita (under the direction of Paul Clark). |
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