Mary Farquharson papers relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, 1942-1945.

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Mary Farquharson papers relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, 1942-1945.

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Accession no. 397-5 in the Mary Farquharson papers (1931-1981) dates primarily from 1942 to 1945 and documents activities of Caucasian Americans who did not agree with the federal policy of incarcerating Japanese Americans living on the West Coast (groups such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play). It includes several lengthy letters from Japanese American inmates, as well as clippings, ephemera, committee memoranda, newsletters, and miscellaneous writings of protest. It also contains subject series on two Japanese Americans, Gordon K. Hirabayashi and Mitsuo Paul Suzuki.

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Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)

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The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. Its members believed that Christians were forbidden to wage war, and that instead they should work positively to establish a new world order of peace and justice. The F.O.R. had its office in London. It produced and distributed literature, including its monthly magazine Reconciliation; worked with youth; fostered groups of members throughout the country; and supported the work of the Int...

Hirabayashi, Gordon K.

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Suzuki, Mitsuo Paul.

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Farquharson, Mary U.

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Mary Farquharson was an activist for liberal and Christian causes who served as a Washington state senator from 1935 to 1941. She was born in 1901 and died in 1982. During World War II, Farquharson was deeply committed to aiding Japanese Americans who had been forcibly incarcerated. She was instrumental in advancing the case of Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese American who refused internment, to the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Mary Farquharson papers relating to the inc...

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...