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Speaker recalls early Japanese community at 40 Third Avenue and Indian School
Summary
A meeting participant described how discrimination in the early 1900s prompted Phoenix’s Japanese residents to form a separate neighborhood at 40 Third Avenue and Indian School, creating a 10-acre community center and a school.
A meeting participant described how discrimination in the early 1900s prompted Phoenix’s Japanese residents to relocate and form a separate neighborhood at 40 Third Avenue and Indian School, building community institutions including a 10-acre community center and a school.
The commenter said the community established its own recreation, businesses and a school that at one point…
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