Cordova had suffered a stroke at birth and has cerebral palsy. She had a single photo of the two of them together. Rodney was adopted by a family in Virginia and had little information about where her brother went. Rodney said her mother became terminally ill and put the twins up for adoption. Rodney, 34, and her twin, Moses Cordova, were born in New York in 1988. It’s the stuff movies are made of.Īfter three decades, with the help of resourceful strangers on the internet, Rodney tracked down her long-lost twin brother living half a country away. (WAVY) – The past year for Asha Rodney has been anything but ordinary. It is an opportunity to educate others on the fragility of civil liberties in times of crisis, and the importance of remaining vigilant in protecting the rights and freedoms of all.VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. The site is described as an "Interpretive Center that serves as a reminder of the impact the incarceration experience has had on families, on communities, and the country. The site was a former migrant farmer workers' camp that was quickly converted to house 2,500 Japanese Americans before they were shipped off to internment camps. ![]() Today, several of the portraits flank the Arboga Assembly Center Memorial Park. "Most folks I talked to may have known about the internment experience, but they had no idea local residents were being taken and warehoused literally right here in south Yuba County."īut the exhibit was only the beginning for the photos, which grew into something much bigger after Read and Cenjer-Moyers helped lead the charge to give the people in the images and their story a permanent home. I still get emotional just thinking about them and seeing their faces and the uncertainty and everything else they must have experienced," said Read. "We worked for weeks, curating the collection, getting the enlargements, and hanging them on the wall in Marysville. "I'm just one small person who came upon this treasure trove of history in 2009 and I wanted to get it to the right place."Īfter unfurling the crinkled rolls of film, she reached out to Read and Yuba Sutter Arts, where nine years later they were able to put the photos on display and teach the community about the history of local Japanese Americans. "I worried I wouldn't be able to do justice to them," said Cenjer-Moyers, who immediately realized the historical significance of the photos. The original 35mm rolls of film sat in boxes for nearly 70 years until Myrtle Bush, Clyde's wife, reached out to the Sue Cenjer-Moyers, the unofficial historian of Marysville. President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast into internment camps, including the families in the photos. On December 7th, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan, the United States entered World War II. "We believe that they believed they were required to have an ID as part of the internment camp experience." "It was assumed it was for ID, because there were so many taken in the same time frame," said David Read, Executive Director of Yuba Sutter Arts. Why the people in the black and white images had their pictures taken is still a mystery. Most of the photos show a very stoic individual looking directly into the lens of the camera. The photos are portraits of nearly 100 Japanese Americans who lived in the Marysville/Yuba City area more than 80 years ago. MARYSVILLE, Yuba County - A chance discovery of a box of photos in a Yuba County storage locker is giving people a unique insight into their community after local historians took it upon themselves to document an important moment in time.
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