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Yamada (Mitsuye) Papers

Owning Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection

About this Collection

The collection comprises the papers of Mitsuye Yamada, a Japanese American poet and political activist who, as a teenager, was interned at Minadoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War II. Her papers document her career as a writer, teacher, and human rights spokesperson, including her involvement with Amnesty International and the struggle by Japanese Americans to redress their treatment during the war. The collection also includes copies of Department of Justice and FBI files about her father's arrest and imprisonment during the war, which Yamada obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. View collection guide.

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25 items found in this collection

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70,000 American refugees: made in U.S.A
The displaced Japanese-Americans
Memoirs 1944: Hunt High School
Outcasts! : the story of America's treatment of her Japanese-American minority
Pacific Citizen 9/25/81
Pacific Citizen article 10/20/78
Pacific Citizen article 10/27/89
Pacific Citizen article 11/14/80
Pacific Citizen article 11/3/89
Pacific Citizen article 12/1/78
Pacific Citizen article 12/19-26/86
Pacific Citizen article 2/17/89
Pacific Citizen article 4/13/79
Pacific Citizen article 6/5/81
Pacific Citizen article 7/21/78
Pacific Citizen article 8/18/78
Pacific Citizen article 8/25/78
Pacific Citizen article 9/1/78
Pacific Citizen article 9/22/78
Pacific Citizen article 9/22/78
Pacific Citizen article 9/29/78
Pacific Citizen article 9/7/79
Report submitted to Tolan Congressional Committee on National Defense Migration
The story of the 442nd combat team
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