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Description
A series of administrative notices to accompany the WRA administrative instruction manual for the attention of WRA employees. Subjects include: "Communications between field offices of War Relocation Authority and Washington offices of other Federal agencies"; "Observance of Fire Prevention Week, October 4-11, 1942"; "Priorities on Phone Calls"; "Railway Station for Gila River Project"; "Cancellation of Pullman Space"; "Reorganization of the Authority"; List of Project Attorneys" The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation Immigration and citizenship--Law and legislation--Legal cases World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation')
Place
Incarceration Camps--Gila River
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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