Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Japanese American Redress Collection
1976-2000
Cage 5126
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
- Creator
- Abe, Frank
- Title
- Japanese American Redress Collection
- ID
- Cage 5126
- Date [inclusive]
- 1976-2000
- Extent
- 0.1 Linear feet of shelf space, 1 Folder
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- Collection consists of ephemera collected by Frank Abe related to Japanese American redress for the forced expulsion and incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II.
Preferred Citation
[Item description]
Japanese American Redress Collection, 1976-2000 (Cage 5126)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
Frank Abe is a third generation Japanese American whose father was incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. He received his B.A. in theater directing from the University of California, Santa Cruz and trained with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He was a founding member of the Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco and the Asian American Journalists Association in Seattle. He produced and directed the award-winning documentary “Conscience and the Constitution” about the largest resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.
The National Council for Japanese American Redress was formed in 1979 and is best known for instituting a class action lawsuit against the United States government for damages due to wartime incarceration.
The United States Federal Government passed The Civil Liberties Act in 1988, offering a formal apology to those who were incarcerated and making payments of $20,000 in compensation to surviving victims.
[Sources: “Conscience and the Constitution” , ITVS, accessed October 9, 2019
“National Council for Japanese American Redress”, Densho Encyclopedia online, 2019.]
Scope and Content
Collection consists of ephemera collected by Frank Abe related to Japanese American redress for the forced expulsion and incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. Mr. Abe produced and directed the award-winning documentary “Conscience and the Constitution”, chronicling resistance to the military draft by a group of young men incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II. The collection includes business cards, a flyer and viewer guide for “Conscience and the Constitution”, and printed materials related to Japanese American redress.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in the order they were received.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2019
https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open and available for research use.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright restrictions apply.
Acquisition Information
Frank Abe donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries in 2012 (MS.2012.17).
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Gayle O'Hara in 2019.
Related Materials
Related Material
George and Frank C. Hirahara Photograph Collection of Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1932-2016 (SC 014)
Tom T. Hide Collection, 1925-2012 (SC 014.1)
Okubara Family Collection, circa 1943-2008 (SC 014.2)
Takeda Family Collection, 1938-circa 2012 (SC 014.3)
Kenneth Nishiyori Collection, 1942-1944 (SC 014.4)
George and Doris McIntyre Papers, 1944-1945 (SC 014.5)
Mari Tsuruyama Okumura Collection, 1936-2014 (SC 014.6)
Patti Hirahara Collection, 1955-2020 (SC 014.7)
Terry Ishihara Collection, 1989-2012 (SC 014.8)
Mike Mackey Collection, 1940-2002 (SC 014.9)
Heart Mountain High School Tempo, 1945 (SC 014.10)
Fusataro Nakaya Photographs, circa 1944 (SC 014.11)
Nabata Family Collection of Heart Mountain Photographs, circa 1942-1945 (SC 014.12)
Frank Chin Oral History Collection, 1974-1986 (Cage 654)
Inez Puckett McEwen Collection on Japanese-American Incarceration, 1942-1943 (Cage 4923)
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Subject(s)
- Japanese Americans -- Reparations
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
- Japanese Americans
Detailed Description of Collection
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Two Frank Abe business cards, one from the King County Executive in Seattle, where he was Director of Communications; the second is tied to “Conscience and the Constitution” and Abe’s Resisters.com Productions 2000 |
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“Japanese American Contemporary Perspectives on Internment: Proceedings of Conferences held January-March 1980” in Washington State 1980 |
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Newsletter of the National Council for Japanese American Redress 1979 |
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Flyer for “Conscience and the Constitution, 2 disc special edition” 2000 |
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Viewer’s guide for “Conscience and the Constitution” 2000 |
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“The Weekly of Metropolitan Seattle, volume 1, number 14”, newsprint paper with article “In Search of John Okada” by Frank Chin. Okada wrote the “No-No Boy”, a novel set in the aftermath of Japanese American incarceration during World War II 1976 |
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