Ray B. Haight Papers 1911-1967

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Ray B. Haight Papers 1911-1967

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The Ray B. Haight Papers consist mainly of information on the Japanese internment camps in the west during the war. Topics include: the camps, the treatment of Japanese-Americans, race issues, Japanese-Americans. There is also a tape recording of a 1967 speech Haight made before the Montana Institute for the Arts History group in Bozeman as well as his notes for various speeches. Photographs of several relocation centers in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, and California are also in the papers.

.4 linear feet and 1 reel audiotape

eng,

MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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United States. War Relocation Authority

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Haight, Ray B., 1886-1977

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Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

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