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Jack Kiyoto Tono Papers
1942-1995, 1 linear foot

These papers contain an oral history, speeches, archival photocopies of trial documents, archival photocopies of testimony from the Japanese American redress hearings in the 1980s, Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyoming) reunion materials, and newspaper clippings. Tono was one of the "Heart Mountain 63" draft resisters, Japanese American men who refused induction into the U.S. Army during World War II while incarcerated in internment camps. He is an educator and activist in Chicago's Japanese American community.
 
Research topics: Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyoming), Japanese American resistance, Japanese American movement for redress from the U.S. Government, Japanese Americans in Chicago, and U.S. civil rights.
 

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