Weekly trend report from J. Ralph McFarling, Community Analyst, Granada (Amache) to Dr. John Harold Provinse and Dr. Edward H. Spicer, War Relocation Authority, February 6, 1945
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Subheadings include: Placer County, California - Social Background; General Reactions; Search for Basis for Keeping Center Open; Interest in Details; Anticipation; and Results of Scouting Trip. Discusses information received from a Nisei about the Placer County community's acceptance of individual Japanese-Americans in the community as well as racism towards Japanese-American immigrants elsewhere. Reports on agricultural industry and immigrant populations in the county. Discusses an anti-Japanese campaign in the county following the 1923 Japanese Exclusion Act. Reports on incarcerees’ agricultural land leases and sub-letting situations. McFarling briefy reports on the "Doi Incident" including suspect identification and incarceration and incarcerees’ reactions. Describes incarcerees’ views on the WRA’s responsibilities in resettlement activities as lacking acceptance of responsibilities of resettlement on a wider (community) scale mirroring that of their removal from their communitie This collection contains materials generated by J. Ralph McFarling, a Community Analyst for the War Relocation
Authority, documenting the Amache Concentration Camp in Granada, Colorado where Japanese-Americans were incarcerated
during World War II.
Geographic communities--California--San Francisco Industry and employment--Agriculture Race and racism World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Incarceration camps
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