Citizens of the seventh grade - excerpts from compositions written by seventh grade students of the Topaz Junior High School on their experiences during evacuation
Creator
United States. War Relocation Authority: author Watanabe, Warren: compiler Bankson, Russell A. (Russell Arden), 1889-1976: author
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Description
This report contains a compilation of the experiences of Topaz Junior High School seventh graders during the war relocation effort. It is described that that "This direct and disconcertingly penetrating narrative serves to illustrate the fact that in their unconscious, unsophisticated simplicity, young children are often able to evaluate a situation with a clarity and freshness which more mature writers find difficult to surpass...Here is a documentation which is real and sincere; filled with a human touch that comes near to making it classic."
Education Education--Public schools Education--Secondary education Identity and values--Nisei World War II--Incarceration camps--Education Identity and values--Youth World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') Identity and values--Children Reports Narratives Excerpts
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Source
Report, 27 pages, typescript, 10.5 x 8 in.: War Relocation Authority Records, Box 3, Folder 5, Special Collections, Claremont Colleges Library.
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