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Wing Luke Asian Museum Honored at Special White House Ceremony

WLAM was award the National Award for Museum Service and met with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A People's Exhibit: Display shows the richness of Asian community

A review of the Wing Luke Museum's exhibit "One Song, Many Voices." Includes background information about the exhibit and a look at racial discrimination Asian Americans have faced over the years.

Still a Melting Pot

Editorial that appeared in the Seattle Times on 4/1/1942 noting the different ethnicities involved in the removal of the Japanese on Bainbridge Island and how they all worked well together.

Mayor Offers Cleric's Name

News article about a minister replacing Clarence Arai as trustee of the Seattle Library Board.

Millikin Names Pastor to Board

News article about the naming of a trustee to the Seattle Library Board who replaces Clarence Arai.

Text of Gen. DeWitt's Curfew Edict

Edict issued by General John L. DeWitt announcing the restrictions Japanese, German and Italian aliens and Japanese Americans must observe, primarily a curfew, limitations on travel and giving up certain items like cameras, short wave radios and…

225 to Make New Homes in California

Photo with incomplete article about the evacuation of Bainbridge Island Japanese to a concentration camp in California. Photo shows the Nakamura family with Rev. Hirakawa in an army truck.

Bainbridge Japs Leave in First N.W. Evacuation

Photo in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer showing Japanese from Bainbridge Island walking to their train for evacuation while people watch from the Marion St. overpass.

Cultures Combine to Aid Democracy

Interview with Clarence Arai with a Japanese American Courier radio announcer, Tura Nakamura, on how the different cultures in this country combined to promoted Americanism.

Japanese Problem

Letter to the Editor to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Charles Sutherland of Cle Elum, WA suggesting what to do with the Japanese in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing.