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Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives

Visit our website to hear these narrators talk about their lives and lasting impact of Japanese American incarceration.
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On this Day of Remembrance, we are highlighting the voices of child survivors and descendants of WWII-era Japanese American incarceration camps through our Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives project.

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Today is the 83rd anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which forced the incarceration and displacement of over 125,000 people, majority of whom were Japanese American and of Japanese descent.

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Zona Roberts: DRILM: Counselor for UC Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students Program & the Center for Independent Living, Mother of Ed Roberts Counselor, UC Berkeley's Physically Disabled Students' Program and Center for Independent Living, Berkeley;mother of Ed Roberts

Zona Roberts was interviewed as part of our Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement project. You can access her interview transcript through our website.
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Zona Roberts, acclaimed Berkeley disability rights pioneer, dies at 104 Zona Roberts made sure her son Ed, who used an iron lung, was able to attend UC Berkeley in the 1960s — sparking the nation’s independent living movement.

We are sad to learn of Zona Roberts' passing. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Oral History Center The practice of transmitting history through oral storytelling is a feature of every culture and is as old as language itself. In the 20th century, institutions and individuals began to use recording ...

Hi, BlueSky community! We're UC Berkeley's Oral History Center. We've been collecting and preserving oral histories since 1953 in many subject areas. Visit our website for more on our work: www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancro...

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