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Fumiko Seki, a Japanese woman, lived in Chapel Hill from 1955 to 1957 while her husband held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at UNC. As a mother, wife and student she watched how the town kept the color line, and she described it in her memoir Chaperu hiru monogatari (Chapel Hill Story).
1918– as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Mishio Yamanaka's article on Fumiko Seki, a Japanese woman in Chapel Hill from 1955 to 1957, and where the color line placed her there. Published in Raleigh in 2023 by the Historical Research Office, 28 pages with illustrations, a facsimile, a map and portraits.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Seki, Fumiko, 1918-.
Fumiko Seki's account of Chapel Hill written in Japanese and published at Tokyo by Seishin Shobo in 1966, with ten preliminary pages and 252 pages of text and illustrations. The book covers the town's twentieth century social life and customs as well as its appearance.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Seki, Fumiko, 1918-.
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