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Description
Document which overviews how and why Japanese Americans were removed from the West Coast, put into temporary assembly centers and then incarceration camps as well as what the War Relocation Authority provides for the incarcerees. 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
Official documents 4 pages, typescript, 10.5 x 8 inches application/pdf
World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers World War II--Incarceration camps--Education
Place
Washington D.C.
Source
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
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