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Letter from Dillon S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority, to Project Directors, June 8, 1943; Community analysis report, no. 5 (June 1943)

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Title: Letter from Dillon S. Myer, Director, War Relocation Authority, to Project Directors, June 8, 1943; Community analysis report, no. 5 (June 1943)
Creator: Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982: author
United States. War Relocation Authority: publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943-06-08
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Materials in the Eastern California Museum may be subject to copyrights. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted to the Eastern California Museum as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. For further information, please contact: ecmuseum@inyocounty.us
Description: Letter from Dillon S. Myer to Project Directors on June 8, 1943. Report on "Evacuee Resistances to Relocation" (or, leaving the incarceration camps). Evacuee resistance to relocation. Presents three "fundamental reasons" for the "relocation program" designed to encourage people to move out of the incarceration camps, then describes the "ideal relocation program," which would see "every one relocated before June 30, 1944." Provides statistics on numbers of people who left camps on indefinite leave in April and May, 1943; discusses leave procedure; probes causes of resistance to relocation, including feelings of insecurity and fear; discusses Issei and Nisei; and concludes with a discussion of "administrative attitudes." Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9057.
Collection of documents and ephemera from Harry Bentley Wells, teacher at Manzanar War Relocation Center High School and Shirley Elizabeth Wells, registered nurse (R.N.) at Manzanar War Relocation Center. This collection includes correspondence, memos, reports, student papers, grade book, commencement program, prom invitation, and other memorabilia from the eleven months H. Bentley Wells was employed at Manzanar.
Type: text
Format: Periodicals; Correspondence
6 pages, 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: ecm_wells_0057
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/36331
Language: English
Subject: Identity and values--Issei
Identity and values--Nisei
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority--Community Analysis Section
World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')--Aftermath
World War II--Propaganda--U.S. Government Propaganda
Place: Manzanar, California
Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source: Eastern California Museum
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Harry Bentley Wells and Shirley Elizabeth Wells Collection

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