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Press release (California Joint Immigration Committee), no. 421 (May 9, 1935): Congressional recognition of Japanese veterans

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Title: Press release (California Joint Immigration Committee), no. 421 (May 9, 1935): Congressional recognition of Japanese veterans
Creator: California Joint Immigration Committee: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935-05-09
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: This letter offers an optimistic outlook as to the future of the bill H.R. 7170 which would permit the naturalization of Japanese-American veterans. The letter goes on to state that the bill has already been recommended by the House Immigration Committee unopposed.
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; Periodicals
1 page, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier: sjs_fla_0986
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/12254
Language: English
Subject: Geographic communities--California
Geographic communities--California--San Francisco
Immigration and citizenship--Naturalization
Military service
Place: San Francisco, California
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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