Helen Yamamoto, a second-generation Japanese-American, shares her oral history in an interview conducted on August 26, 1986. She discusses her family background, including her grandparents' immigration from Japan to Hawaii and later to the United States. Helen talks about her parents' experiences, their farming endeavors, prejudice faced by Japanese farmers, and her own upbringing in Santa Clara County. She emphasizes the importance of education and highlights her mother's remarkable abilities in operating a grocery store and speaking multiple languages.

Voices of Ventura County - Helen Yamamoto

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