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Description
Report detailing the establishment of the Community Activities Department to organize sports, dances, a library, movies, talent shows, drama performances, and lectures by the National Park Service about the desert environs. Includes description of issues with the installation of organized recreation due to lack of funding and personnel issues. Report compiled as a portion of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The Robert Billigmeier collection is comprised of materials collected during his work and stay at the Tule Lake incarceration camp conducting research for the University of California’s Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The collection includes: photographs taken during his time at Tule Lake; a scrapbook created by students at Tule Lake in 1942; camp publications; reports and manuscripts; and student writings. Several of the reports and manuscripts draw from the personality cards written by students in the Tule Lake incarceration camp.
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities Community activities--Sports--Judo Community activities--Recreational activities Community activities--Sports Arts and literature--Performing arts Arts and literature--Performing arts--Theater Arts and literature--Performing arts--Film World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration Community activities--Recreational activities--Go Identity and values--Issei Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Men Identity and values--Women Identity and values--Japanese American identity Social sciences Social sciences--Fieldwork
Place
Rivers, Arizona Incarceration Camps--Gila River
Source
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
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