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OH 1069

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeNAKANO, Mei T. (b. 1924)
ProfessionsCollege Professor

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1069
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionCollege professor. Her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado; evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache, September, 1942; camp life; her marriage in camp; resettlement in Chicago; lasting impressions of the internment experience.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description48 pp.
Terms of UseOpen