Willard E. Schmidt Papers 1942-1945 1944
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United States. Army. Western Defense Command
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On 4 June 1942, the U.S. Army, Western Theater of Operations, was authorized to create a War Disaster Relief Plan for Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. The War Disaster Relief Plan was "to provide the course of action to be taken by the Army in case of a total or partial failure of civilian and other governmental agencies to perform their respective War Disaster Relief functions," in the case of enemy invasion or sporadic raids including bombing raids. To...
United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration
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Agency of the Western Defense Command of the United States Army. From the description of Wartime Civil Control Administration miscellaneous records, 1942-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869731 In 1942, to carry out Executive Order No. 9066, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt was designated military commander for the western half of the United States. He created the Wartime Civil Control Administration; its mission was to evacuate and relocate people of Japanese ancestry. DeWitt...
San José State University. Library. Special Collections & Archives
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Organizational History In 1857 the San Francisco Board of Education established an evening school for current and prospective teachers in the city. The school became know as the Minns' Evening Normal School, named after the principal, Washington Minns. In 1862, the California State Legislature formally established Minns' school as the first California State Normal School. The school remained in San Francisco until the California State Legisla...
Tule Lake Relocation Center
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World War II and its subsequent effects on the American nation permeated every aspect of the lives of the country's people. Although virtually everyone was touched in some respect by the war, perhaps no people, as a group, were affected more than the Japanese-Americans living in the far western states. Both aliens and American citizens of Japanese ancestry became the victims of the distrust and fear generated by both civilians and military personnel along the Pacific Coast. Viewed a...
United States. War Relocation Authority
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From 1942 to 1946, Edward H. Spicer, Anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, was Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority, in Washington, D.C. From the description of United States War Relocation Authority collection, 1942-1947. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29305373 Biography / Administrative History On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order ...
