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Letter from Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority to Martian Dies, Chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, June 2, 1943

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Title: Letter from Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority to Martian Dies, Chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, June 2, 1943
Creator: Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982: author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943-06-02
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc
Description: Letter from Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority, urging Dies, Chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, to keep the committee from making incomplete public statements about the War Relocation Authority during the war.
The collection contains material used by Carey McWilliams in writing the book, Prejudice: Japanese Americans, symbol of racial intolerance (Little, Brown, 1944). It includes U.S. War Relocation Authority records, confidential reports, bibliographies, clippings and compilations of articles, legal papers, correspondence between McWilliams and Japanese American evacuees, relocation camp newspapers and other publications, two copies of his book, and five copies of the 1994 videocassette (40 min.), Something Strong Within.
Type: text
Format: Correspondence
2 pages, typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches
application/pdf
Identifier: tccl_jai00165
tccl_wra_00165
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27160
Language: English
Subject: Activism and involvement--Politics--Lobbying
Race and racism
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
Place: Washington D.C.
Source: Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3b69q445
War Relocation Authority Records

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