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Title
Letter from Jean to Sakai family, September 26, 1942
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-09-26
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
Letter from Jean to Sakai family, describing in detail the daily life at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Incarcerees were allowed to go hiking in groups in the mountains surrounding the camp, accompanied by a Caucasian. Describes the constant need for good science teachers. The young are tired and feeling the effects of being incarcerated.
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.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
MS-840_0211
chs_ms840_0211
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/48428
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities
World War II--Incarceration camps--Education
World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration
Identity and values--Youth
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
California Historical Society
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0v19r86x/
Joseph R. Goodman papers on Japanese American incarceration

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