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Letter from Gertrude Laws, Director, Education For Women, Pasadena City Schools, to Remsen Bird, May14, 1942

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Title: Letter from Gertrude Laws, Director, Education For Women, Pasadena City Schools, to Remsen Bird, May14, 1942
Creator: Laws, Gertrude
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942-05-14
2005-05-04
Publication Information: Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Contributing Institution: Occidental College Library
Collection: Japanese American Relocation Collection
Rights Information: Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Description: Laws describes two incidents concerning the evacuation of Japanese Americans and a sub-committee of Pasadena Defense Council of which Laws is a member. The first is the cancelled appearance of Everett Chapman from Santa Anita Assembly Center who was to discuss the situation with the evacuation. The second is the denial of entrance to Santa Anita for Mrs. Robert A. Millikan and Rev. Wesley Nicholson when they tried to visit. Laws is concerned that professional workers in education are being prevented from entering the camps. Laws writes, "Familiar educational procedures under the direction of competent public school workers would do much to stabilize children and their parents."
Type: image
Format: Letter ; typescript
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Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt696nf29x
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scjar01ed187_pg1-pg2
Language: English
Subject: Education
World War, 1939-1945--Internment of civilians
Concentration camps--United States
Santa Anita Assembly Center (Santa Anita, Calif.)
Japanese Americans--Cultural assimilation
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Source: Occidental College Library;

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