Papers related to the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, 1941-1952.

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Papers related to the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, 1941-1952.

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Collection consists of correspondence and other papers related to the activities of the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play and Ruth W. Kingman's involvement in the organization. Includes materials related to the Tanforan Assembly Center and the Central Utah WRA Center in Topaz, UT. Includes Kingman's correspondence with Japanese evacuees, including Ciura Obata on the Tanforan Center Art School, and American soldiers. Also includes incidental papers on the naturalization of Japanese.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7416989

University of California, Los Angeles

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Kingman, Ruth W.

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Ruth W. Kingman was the Executive Secretary of the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. From the description of Papers related to the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, 1941-1952. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39797336 ...

Japanese American Research Project (University of California, Los Angeles)

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The Japanese American Research Project (originally named the Issei History Project) was initiated by Wakamatsu Shigeo, President of the Japanese American citizens League (JACL) in 1960. The three major objectives of the project were: 1. to conduct a sociological survey based on a national sampling of the Issei and Nisei populations; 2. to publish a definitive history of the Japanese Americans; 3. and to collect documents, including oral history and memorabilia. UCLA agreed to co-sponsor the proj...

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...