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Copy of article by Chester H. Rowell published in the San Francisco Chronicle, arguing against a congressional subcommittee's proposal to "turn the camps back to the army, in the hope that the military would be "tough"' and reduce them effectively to prisoners." Rowell favors a movement "to expedite the return of undoubtedly loyal Japanese-Americans to their normal occupations, outside the camps," arguing that "it is a matter also of our own self-interest." The article concludes: "We shall have to live, on some terms with these American citizens of Japanese ancestry, after the war. The sooner and the more fully they can be restored to their normal places in American life, the better Americans they will be. Also, in doing it, we shall be better Americans ourselves. To lock them up, unjustly, in the same camps with the trouble-makers, is to expose them to the worst possible influences, under the worst possible environment. And the time to begin to avoid that evil is now." Also included are replies to the article, published in later issues of the Chronicle. Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide.
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Excerpts; Essays 4 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches application/pdf
Journalism and media--Mass media Race and racism--Discrimination World War II--'Enemy Alien' Classification World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement World War II--Military service
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