| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Raymond Uno |
| Alternative Title |
Raymond Uno: interviews on September 27 and October 17, 1987 |
| Creator |
Uno, Raymond, 1930- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1987-09-27; 1987-10-17 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| 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. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5779206/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ ; Park County, Wyoming, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5834587/ ; El Monte, Los Angeles County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5345743/ |
| Subject |
Uno, Raymond, 1930- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.); United States--Armed Forces--Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Judges--Utah; Utah--Ethnic relations |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 134 pages) of an interview with Raymond Uno, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1987. Judge Uno (b. 1930) reminisces about his childhood in Ogden, Utah, the family's move to California in the mid-1930s, and subsequent experiences during the Japanese relocations of World War II. The Uno family was sent to the Hart Mountain relocation center in Wyoming. In 1948 Uno enlisted in the United States Army and served in post-war Japan. He also relates his experiences in the Utah judicial system |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
| 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/s603089w |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.); Judges--U.S. states |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900074 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s603089w |
| Title |
Page 80 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
900018 |
| OCR Text |
Show LK RU LK RU utilities, all the major department stores and went to employment security, the churches, the church offices and things like that and asked them, you know, what their hiring practices were. Who they would hire and almost uniformly they would not hire anybody in a customer contact position, any minority. At that time the personnel director of Mountain Bell said to me, I would not hire you to be a salesman for Utah Power & Light because can you imagine you walk- · ing to · a door and a white woman comes up? And they see you there? And that was the same way with a lot of the Woolworth's, Grant's, five and dime stores. They would not hire customer contact people, sales people. They told you that to your face, right? To my face, yeah. I remember that, very distinctly. Then when I went to Mountain Fuel I said, do you have anybody in, that's a minority and they said, yeah, we have a janitor. Then they had a Japanese girl working as a secretary. But no customer contact. In any of the utilities. And many of the major stores. When you were involved in Civil Rights activities, were you angry at what was happening? Did you get angry? I got angrier as I went along because I found out that discrimination was really there and it was deepseated. In talking to the legislators they did not recognize 79 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s603089w/900018 |
