Dear Miss Breed
Clara E. Breed (1906-1994) grew up in a Christian home[1] and was a children’s librarian in San Diego at the time of the evacuation. Her library was the branch closest…
A Family Picnic
According to the 1940 census, nearly two-thirds of Japanese Americans had jobs related to agriculture. Such work brought them into contact with members of the farming community. E. C. Loomis…
Plain Talk About Exclusion
Walter C. Woodward (1910-2001) and his wife, Mildred (1909-1989), lived on Bainbridge Island across Puget Sound from Seattle and were among the only courageous souls who spoke up for the…
The First Church to Close
Virginia Swanson’s ministry had begun in 1932 when the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Minnesotan had been sent by the Women’s Baptist Home Mission Board in New York to serve as a missionary…