[Tule Lake and Manzanar relocation center clippings.] 1973-1980.

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[Tule Lake and Manzanar relocation center clippings.] 1973-1980.

1973-1980.

Newspaper clippings and flyers regarding narratives of life in the Tule Lake and Manzanar relocation centers, two of the camps where Japanese-Americans were confined by the U.S. government from 1942 to 1945. Collection includes a 1973 San Francisco Chronicle interview with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of a memoir titled Farewell to Manzanar; a 1976 San Francisco Chronicle article about a documentary film based on Farewell to Manzanar; and two brochures about the novel Tule Lake, by Edward Miyakawa.

4 items : ill. ; largest, 38 cm.

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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...

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Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in the Owens Valley in Central CA; the site was used by Paiute-Shoshone Indians for centuries until it became a Euro-American fruit-growing settlement, 1910-35; the US Army initially established the camp as the Owens Valley Reception Center under the management of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), March-May 1942; on June 1, 1942, Manzanar was reconstituted as a War Relocation Authority (WRA) center; its peak population was 10,121, and the...