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Title: Wartime Civil Control Administration press release no. 6-42
Creator: United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-04-17
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: Material in public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: A press release announcing the appointment of E. R. Fryer, general superintendent of the Navajo Indian Reservation, as regional director of the San Francisco office of the War Relocation Authority. The regional director of the San Francisco office was charged with overseeing the forced removal and resettlement projects in the far west.
The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
Type: text
Format: Press releases
1 page, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: sjs_fla_0729
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/7242
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
Source: San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt987024h5/
John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records

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