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Letter from Tom C. Clark, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, to Frank Herron Smith, May 31, 1945

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Title: Letter from Tom C. Clark, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, to Frank Herron Smith, May 31, 1945
Creator: Clark, Tom C. (Tom Campbell), 1899-1977: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945-05-31
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Notice regarding copyright of materials available online: http://lib.calpoly.edu/support/policies/sca-policies/copyright-guidelines/#online-copyright
Description: Referencing Clark's May 4, 1945 letter to Harry Truman regarding violence against Japanese Americans on the West Coast, Clark informs Smith that unless a federal law is violated, the FBI can not be involved. See related Letter from Frank Herron Smith to President Harry S. Truman, May 4, 1945.
Papers of two generations of the Smith family, Dr. Frank Herron Smith and his son Dr. Morris Eugene “Gene” Smith, including vintage broadsides and government reports on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and correspondence from the elder Smith to government officials advocating for improved treatment and safety for returning incarcerees.
Type: text
Format: Correspondence
1 page ; typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: 065-1-a-01-01-07
slo_smi_0007
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/312
Language: English
Subject: Geographic communities--California
Race and racism--Violence
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
Place: Washington, DC
Source: Special Collections and Archives, Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://lib.calpoly.edu/support/findingaids/ms065-smith/
Smith Family Papers on World War II

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