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Description
Speech from Lt. Col. Wallace H. Moore before the U.S. Employment Service about discrimination during the job hiring process and the affect of discrimination on people of Japanese descent. Moore discusses the loyalty, Americanism, and characters of Japanese Americans by the military service of many under his charge. The collection contains material used by Carey McWilliams in writing the book, Prejudice: Japanese Americans, symbol of racial intolerance (Little, Brown, 1944). It includes U.S. War Relocation Authority records, confidential reports, bibliographies, clippings and compilations of articles, legal papers, correspondence between McWilliams and Japanese American evacuees, relocation camp newspapers and other publications, two copies of his book, and five copies of the 1994 videocassette (40 min.), Something Strong Within.
Type
text
Format
Speeches 10 pages, typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches image/jpeg
Race and racism--Discrimination Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Japanese American identity World War II--Military service--100th Infantry Battalion World War II--Military service--442nd Regimental Combat Team World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--'War Hysteria World War II--Leaving camp--Returning home
Place
Los Angeles, California
Source
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
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