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Description
Letter from Grace and Calvin Coke to Thomas R. Bodine, responding to a letter from Bodine addressed to Mary Kimber (chs_ms840_0307), and describing the Coke's visit to Pinedale Assembly Center where they met with incarcerees from the Puget Sound area mentioned in Bodine's letter to Kimber. At Pinedale, the Cokes met with Rev. Daisuke Kitigawa, Waichi Oyanagi, Chisako Higuchi, and the parents of Gordon Hirabayashi. A note in pencil at the top of the page: "Orient. Problems." Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence 2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript application/pdf
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Education World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Supreme Court cases--Gordon Hirabayashi World War II--Support from the non-Japanese American community World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') Activism and involvement Community activities--Associations and organizations
Place
Oakland, California Temporary Assembly Centers--Pinedale
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