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Description
An issue titled as: Social and political organization of the block and Manzanar. It discusses the block's social and political structure. It details how the village is governed, how funds are allocated and provides a list of the personnel that works in the block. The document highlights what worked and what did not and deepens aspects of people's lives and morale, including quality and quantity of food and political aspects, such as, the possibility for men and women to vote. 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
Periodicals 4 pages, typescript, 11 x 8.5 inches application/pdf
Activism and involvement--Civil rights World War II--Incarceration camps--Living Conditions World War II--Incarceration camps--Food World War II--Incarceration camps--Social relations
Place
Washington D.C. Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
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