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Description
Speech by Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General of California, regarding protecting Japanese Americans as they return to their communities; address pays particular attention to the threat of negative publicity regarding conflicts between America's claims for democracy and equality and its treatment of Japanese Americans; race relations in America; the role of race in the removal of only people of Japanese ancestry, and not of Germans and Italians; racist incidents perpetrated against Japanese Americans; and the Constitutional duty to protect Japanese Americans deemed loyal to the United States.
The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Speeches 6 pages, typescript; 8 x 10.5 in. application/pdf
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