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Title
Letter from Charlotte Susu-Mago to Elizabeth McCloy, December 15, 1943
Creator
Susu-Mago, Charlotte
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-12-15
2005-05-19
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
In this five-page letter, Susu-Mago describes the isolation at Tulare Assembly Center, the incredulousness and resentment felt by younger internees with older parents, and internees´ worries over the properties they were forced to give up back home. Susu-Mago relates a few stories to illustrate her "most vociferous" tone in "damning the whole movement". For example, she gives an account of a young man who jumped over the wire at Tulare one day (saying, "I just couldn't stand it any longer, so I went out.") and was arrested.
Type
image
Format
Letter ; typescript
image/jpeg
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8z09s0pw
127_kt638nc9ww
scjar01ea127_pg1-pg5
Language
English
Subject
Concentration Camps--United States
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Tulare Assembly Center (Tulare, Calif.)
Source
Occidental College Library

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