Japanese American relocation collection 1941-1947 1941-1947 (bulk 1942-1944)

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Japanese American relocation collection 1941-1947 1941-1947 (bulk 1942-1944)

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The collection consists of correspondence, magazines, newspaper and journal articles clippings, and publications from the War Relocation Authority, religious groups, as well as civil liberties organizations. It also has a series of correspondence to and from Occidental President Remsen Bird's office, and meeting minutes and other publications from the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council.

8 document boxes and 34 oversize boxes; 224 online items

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Mary Norton Clapp Library

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Mary Norton Clapp Library

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In August 1942, Occidental College President Remsen Bird wrote to College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy, requesting that the Library gather and collect materials related to the Japanese American internment. For the next few years McCloy and her staff honored this request, forming the Japanese Ameridcan Relocation Collection. The collection was held in closed stacks in the Special Collections department and remained largely untouched until 2004, when Occidental College recei...

Bird, Remsen Du Bois, 1888-

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McCloy, Elizabeth

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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 ...

National Japanese American Student Relocation Council

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The Council's records are housed at the Hoover Institute for War, Peace, and Revolution at Stanford University. From the description of Files from the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, 1942-1943. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122291028 Text from first paragraph of document: "At its meeting in New York on June 15, 1944, the Student Relocation Council discussed at some length the apathy, apprehensiveness, and misconceptions that...