HIGHLIGHTS FROM DIVA - JAPANESE AMERICAN COLLECTIONS

San Francisco has long been known as a nesting ground for many diverse peoples.  A large portion of its past and current population are Japanese Americans, and DIVA hosts a variety of resources that document their presence and influence here in San Francisco.  The Bay Area Television Archive and Japanese American Collection, specifically, hold many videos representative of this distinct culture, including dancing and art pieces.  The CSU World Image Archive also provides images of various cultural items, such as a wedding kimono and decorative ceramics, and the Edward B. Kaufmann Collection documents local sights like the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.  For more political and historical resources take a look at the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 or head back to the television archive.  The Gentlemen's Agreement collection includes media related to the 1906 school segregation of local Japanese by the SF Board of Education.  The collection includes material from both U.S. and Japanese parties, such as this statement from the Imperial Japanese Embassy in reaction to the segregation.  The television archive additionally has multiple videos documenting the community's involvement in WWII as well as an award winning report about the effects of the war on local Japanese Americans.