User:DarmaniLink/sandbox/Fred Hirasuna

Fred Hirasuna
Born(1908-02-11)February 11, 1908
DiedFebruary 12, 2004(2004-02-12) (aged 96)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)JACL President
Business Owner
SpouseSetsuko Hirasuna
Children3

Fred Yoshio Hirasuna was a nisei, president of the Fresno chapter of the JACL during the Second World War[1] and a co-founder of Sunnyside Packing Company.[2]

Early life

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born in lodi california, married setsuko hirasuna, open chicken sexing business, became jacl president chicken sexing companyclosed and sold off due to evacuating to MN Fears over potential war with Japan and mass internment/concentration if it happened


Fresno JACL President and evacuation during World War II

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was not interned, liquidated business, evacuated to MN to avoid interment, encouraged compliance among the Japanese-americans given relocation orders due to concerns over potential deportation

Return to Fresno post-war

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established SPC, still around today

Opposition to the Resisters

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several interviews as he was the former president, many disagreements and expressions of doubt over the true motivations of the resisters


potential sources for now
densho
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/20/
https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1000-21-1/
https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-122-29-1/
https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-8/ddr-csujad-8-88-mezzanine-858d70262b.pdf
resisters
https://www.resisters.com/htdocs/news/PC_Merced.htm
https://www.resisters.com/htdocs/news/PC_Nakagawa.ht
https://resisters.com/2004/02/23/in-memoriam-fred-hirasuna/m
pacific citizen
https://pacificcitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/archives-menu/Vol.077_%2312_Sep_21_1973.pdf
https://pacificcitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/archives-menu/Vol.089_%2374_Dec_21_1979.pdf
https://pacificcitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/archives-menu/Vol.045_%2325_Dec_20_1957.pdf
https://pacificcitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/archives-menu/Vol.073_%2323_Dec_03_1971.pdf
misc
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/fresnobee/name/fred-hirasuna-obituary?id=14631671
http://www.sunnysidepacking.com/index.php?dl=43
https://omeka.library.fresnostate.edu/s/japanese-americans/item/863
https://thebusinessjournal.com/todd-hirasuna/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29222936
https://dp.la/item/e9243b707958a14fdd8de9e1d4f39c3b
https://online.ucpress.edu/ch/article-pdf/82/4/78/544238/25161775.pdf
https://www.sunnysidepacking.com/in-the-news
https://guides.library.fresnostate.edu/c.php?g=636720&p=4477414
https://theorangestory.org/chapter4.php
https://abc30.com/made-in-the-valley-sunnyside-packing-agriculture-bell-peppers/188032/
https://pinedalememorial.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Storyboard-6-Reclaiming-Lost-Lives.pdf
https://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16855coll4/id/11409
https://calisphere.org/item/71c56081ffd9dcea2235ab3b1a7d616c/
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87062084/1942-09-03/ed-1/?sp=1&st=text
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/2021-08/40-051-6037539-033-017-2021.pdf
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A132775775/AONE?u=anon~d56508c7&sid=googleScholar&xid=8d92438a
https://www.ipl.org/essay/Swot-Analysis-Of-Enzo-Pesto-FCZ72V3NPG
https://academic.oup.com/princeton-scholarship-online/book/14737/chapter-abstract/168926422?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://theproducenews.com/third-generation-takes-wheel-sunnyside-packing
http://sunnysidepacking.com/history.html