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Carter, Genevieve by John Milner - Audio Oral History Interview - CSWA ❧ Interview by John Milner on February 24, 1987. An interview with Dr. Genevieve Carter as she recounts her experiences with the Manzanar program. ❧ CONTENTS: (0:47) Introduction by John Milner. CONTENTS: (1:23) Carter explaining what the Manzanar program was. (5:01) Finishing Doctorate's degree at Berkeley and working at the Institute of Child's Welfare. (9:12) Integration of psychiatry and social and the progression of social work. (18:02) Social organization of the Japanese. (22:48) Reports of rioting at the Manzanar camp and its results. (31:12) Medical programs within the camps. (37:50) Selecting a director of social within the camp. (44:53) Personal relationships that existed between Caucasian staff members and Japanese interns. (51:10) Carter's work with the children's program. (57:23) Rational of brining children that were only a quarter Japanese. (58:34) Starting a library in the camp. (1:06:32) The emotions and feelings of both staff and interments. (1:10:45) The war effort recruitment and political and economic forces influencing the removal of the Japanese ❧ Genevieve Carter (1907-1998). Social worker, researcher. Genevieve Carter Interview. Interviewed by John Milner. Date of interview: 2-24-87. 1 cassette tape. Length of interview: 1 hour and 30 minutes. Transcript of interview: 28 pp. CD containing interview and transcript. INTERVIEW TOPICS: Detention of Japanese other taped interviews re Manzanar reasons for involvement with Manzanar other persons' involvement maintenance of Japanese family unity educational background Manzanar camp philosophy physical plant food camp social organization riot resolution of problems medical and dental services staff composition general camp meetings visit of "Happy" Chandler relationship between Caucasian staff and the Japanese outside community relations children's programs camp library adult education, religion recreation emotions and feelings of staff and the Japanese concluding remarks. ❧ ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: 1. California Social Work Hall of Distinction Biography ( http://socialworkhallofdistinction.usc.edu/honorees/ ). 2. Personal biographical newsletter (2 copies). 3. Announcements of memorial tribute to celebrate life of Genevieve Carter. 4. Brief biographical outline. 5. 2 photographs of Genevieve Carter: 1 6 x 4 in. of G. Carter with Monika White and Frances Lomas Feldman (4-8-94). 6. Photocopies of Japanese-American relocation announcements and of maps of internment camps. 7. "Ansel Adams' Manzanar," Los Angeles Times (7 August 1999), Part VI: 1, 8. 8. Genevieve Carter, "The Service Side of the FAP Bill: What Does our Research Tell Us?." Paper presented at the Conference on Issues in Social Welfare Policy Curriculum, Center for Continuing Education, Chicago, Illinois, 29-30 November 1970. 9. Interview with Genevieve Carter re Helen Dean monograph. 9-24/25-94. 10. Rough draft of Helen Dean monograph. 11. 1 cassette tape from "Sound Portraits": Memories of Manzanar: Dr. Genevieve W. Carter's Own Words. 12. 1 diskette of transcript of Hamovitch interview. 13. 1 diskette of transcript of Feldman/White/Carter interview. 14. 1 diskette of transcript of Milner interview. 15. Los Angeles Times editorial (7-10-98): "Keeping Manzanar's Message."
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