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So even though i had people ask me about it, i always dismissed it. But this was an opportunity through an appointment, not election. So you get appointed, then you do your job, then you can seek election. So in 1969, i ran for the City Council Post that i had by appointment. But on the brochure, i couldnt say reelect norm because i hadnt been elected in the first place, so we used the phrase retain norm on the council. How supportive was the Japanese American Community to your campaign . Very. I had great support from within the community. At that point it was probably maybe 2 of the populati...

Sits in with a lecture for the Nations College professors. Up next, Richard Reeves talks about the internment experiences of japaneseamericans living on the west coast and how the press expressed hysteria over possible acts of sabotage. Experiences of japaneseamericans very widely depending on where they lived during a time of open racism. This is about an hour. Part of what were going to talk about today is the tendency for the press to all follow the same story line, which weve seen a lot of right now with two story lines that are taking up most of the news space these days. Ebola, every pap...

Most of the news space these days. Ebola, every papers saying the same, every paper, every television, the internet is all following that story according to a pretty well known narrative because its also been fictionalized in film. And then, what then knocks off ebola and people dying in africa. Bill cosby, so that all everybodys writing the same kind of story about bill cosby every day but with different names. And so, today, i want to talk about a story that ran like that, what happens when a kind of fever, kind of hysteria usually based on fear, like ebola was where the press takes a line. ...

Camps they were barbed wire enclosures with machine guns manned by american soldiers at these 10 relocation camps. First they went to 18 Assembly Centers they were called. Santa anita racetrack was one the livestock pavilions in washington and oregon and the people lived in stables. They were amazingly compliant as they were rounded up. There were only for four people who didnt as it were show up and even in santa anita where they recreated these kinds of small town america where there were 18,000 people held at santa anita all of them claiming that they are stable with the manure and Everythi...

Each week, American History tvs is in him a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the clots is here every saturday evening at 8 00 and midnight. Next, university of minnesota professor erika lee talks about agent immigration to the west coast from 1832 1930. She compares the angel island and ellis island experiences, describing how agent immigrants in california had more expensive that ground checks and longer Holding Times then european immigrants in new york. Her ms. Lee classes about 1. 5 hours. Hello. Welcome back. So many of us as americans, we grow up learning...