| Title |
Lee Suyemoto, Newton, Massachusetts, tape no. 43: an interview by Sandra Taylor, June 21, 1988 |
| Creator |
Suyemoto, Lee |
| Contributor |
Taylor, Sandra C. |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1988-06-21 |
| Date Digital |
2014-03-25 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Temporal Coverage |
June 21, 1988 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Topaz Camp, Millard County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5548582/ ; San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, http://sws.geonames.org/5391749/ |
| Subject |
Japanese Americans--Massachusetts--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Description |
Typescript (27 pages), the transcript of an interview by Sandra C. Taylor with Lee Suyemoto, a Japanese-American living in Newton, Massachusetts. Interview took place on June 21, 1988, on behalf of the American West Center at the University of Utah |
| Collection Number and Name |
1002; Topaz Oral Histories |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv97265 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6k6615s |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_toh |
| ID |
1043142 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k6615s |
| Title |
Page 22 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_toh |
| ID |
1043132 |
| OCR Text |
Show LEE SU EMOTO a 1de hole. Every so often a group of us from camp would ge passes to go outside, and we'd walk to this juncture, not really to swim as the hole was not big enough. e were maybe thirteen or fourteen years old, and e met a group of white kids from the neighboring farms. They must have been eight or nine years old. As we're walking, they started to call us Japs and shouted other epithets. At that time if somebody called us a Jap, they were fighting words. ST: Oh sure, yeah. LS: It doesn't bother me anymore when someone calls me a Jap. I've been called worse, so it doesn't bother me now. But at that time and at that age they were fighting words. A group of us, we were ready to go off and take after these guys. ST: Yeah, were they kids too? LS: Yeah, they were kids too, a little younger than we were. Thinking back on it, they didn't know what it really meant to call us Japs, but they heard it being used by their parents or whomever at home about the camp residents. What stopped us from fighting was that we were told more than once from the administration in camp that any kind of disturbances outside of camp will reflect back on the camp, and there could be some sort of punishment. I don't 18 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k6615s/1043132 |
