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Newspaper clipping from Topaz Times, a news bulletin published at Topaz incarceration camp. Clipping contains article: "Agitation on the West coast reached ridiculous proportions according to news from the San Francisco Chronicle that California congressmen have appointed Representative Costello (D., Cal.) to head a committee to oppose permission of Japanese-American soldiers from returning to restricted areas on the Pacific coast. This action followed Assistant Secretary of War McCloy's statement that the War department feels that Japanese-American soldiers could not be called upon "to fight in combat against the enemy without at the same time extending to them the privileges that all other American soldiers have." Costello believes that Lt. Gen. DeWitt would not be transferred from the West coast. His committee members include Representatives Englebright (R), Izac (D), Anderson (R) and Tolan (D) -- (of Tolan hearing fame). Further anti-racial proposals may be expected from these politicians, who typify the carpet-baggers of the post-Civil war South." Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide.
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Incarceration camps--Publications World War II--Military service Race and racism--Discrimination
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