Daiichi Takeoka is remembered

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During Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Daiichi Takeoka is commemorated as one of the five Asian graduates from the University of Oregon’s law school on May 21, 1912.
Arriving in Portland from Hiroshima, Japan, at the age of 18 in 1900, Takeoka worked various odd jobs across the Pacific Northwest, including working as a bellhop at the Portland Hotel, before pursuing a law degree.
Despite being ineligible for U.S. citizenship under the prevailing naturalization law that worked against Asians and other people of color, Takeoka collaborated with white lawyers to provide legal aid to Oregon’s Japanese community.
After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Takeoka was arrested by the FBI and subsequently detained in the Department of Justice facility in Fort Missoula, Montana, as well as in the Santa Fe and Minidoka concentration camps.
Learn more about how Takeoka’s legacy illuminates Asian representation in American law today at www.opb.org/sh...
📹 Winston Szeto, OPB & Arya Surowidjojo, OPB
✨ Special thanks to Cynthia Basye, board member of the Japanese American Museum of Oregon in Portland.
📸 Historical images courtesy of the Yasui family and Portland City Archives & Records Management.
#portland #uolawschool #japaneseamerican #aapiheritagemonth #oregonexperience #OPB #Oregon #PacificNorthWest #oregonhistory

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21 сен 2024

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@tarriegibson1193 4 месяца назад

I grew up with diverse people in Oregon and attended a woman named Mary's 96th birthday party. She told me how she and her family were relocated to an internment camp and how they were awful and the yards were full of cow pies.After all those years that pain in her families life was never forgotten. But I knew her my whole life and she never talked about it until her 96th birthday. She was a beautiful and humble woman and a real inspiration .😊

@AngelMGordon 4 месяца назад

This is what should be taught in 5th-6th-7th grade social studies & history classrooms. And a lot more of real past history. Open young minds for discussions about reasons and wrongs. We can't undo the past. Talk about how we can make better choices now & future. Help developing compassion and respect for diversity, not fear it . The age range is old enough to handle hard realities. Yet young enough to have emotional connectivity. [ crying is ok when caring is involved].