Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play Records, 1940-1951

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Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play Records, 1940-1951

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Number of containers: 5 cartons and 8 boxes; Linear feet: 9.55

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Bancroft Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6663059

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Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play

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The Committee was formed in Jan. 1943 to preserve the constitutional rights of persons of Japanese ancestry who had been evacuated from the Pacific Coast and relocated to the interior of the U.S. by presidential proclamation in 1942. The committee was an outgrowth of the Committee on National Security and Fair Play, which had been originally constituted in Oct. 1941, under the name, Northern California Committee for Fair Play for Citizens and Aliens of Japanese Ancestry. The committee acted an a...