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Title
[Collection of editorials in the press during May 1945]
Creator
United States. War Relocation Authority: author
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
Document of multiple editorials from different presses that comment on the racial violence and intimidation toward Japanese Americans in the California over farmland, returning home from the war or incarcerations camps.
The collection contains material used by Carey McWilliams in writing the book, Prejudice: Japanese Americans, symbol of racial intolerance (Little, Brown, 1944). It includes U.S. War Relocation Authority records, confidential reports, bibliographies, clippings and compilations of articles, legal papers, correspondence between McWilliams and Japanese American evacuees, relocation camp newspapers and other publications, two copies of his book, and five copies of the 1994 videocassette (40 min.), Something Strong Within.
Type
text
Format
Miscellaneous documents
4 pages, typescript, 10.5 x 8 inches
application/pdf
Identifier
tccl_jai00138
tccl_wra_00138
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/27217
Language
English
Subject
Geographic communities--California
Race and racism--Violence
Industry and employment--Agriculture
World War II--Leaving camp--Returning home
World War II--Military service
Place
San Francisco, California
Source
Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges Library
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3b69q445
War Relocation Authority Records

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