[Relief and support groups for Japanese-Americans during World War II]. 1942-1965?

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[Relief and support groups for Japanese-Americans during World War II]. 1942-1965?

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This collection contains reports, correspondence, publicity, and other documents issued by the Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, YMCA, American Friends Service Committee, and Japanese American Citizens League. These groups sought to provide relief and support for interned Japanese-Americans.

1 box (.5 linear ft.).

California State University, Northridge

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SNAC Resource ID: 7959023

California State University, Northridge

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Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

Japanese American Citizens' League

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Founded in 1930, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is a membership organization whose mission is to secure and maintain the human and civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others victimized by injustice. The JACL has 112 chapters nationwide and eight regional districts with over 24,000 members found in 23 states. In addition to its national headquarters in San Francisco, the JACL has five regional offices (Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago), as well as ...

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...

YMCA of the USA

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A child of evangelical Protestantism, the YMCA at first considered itself a specialized agency for bringing young men to Christ. Although the early Y's mission was unabashedly religious in nature, the organization focused on method rather than doctrine or philosophy. Dominated by business men rather than professional religious leaders, the movement tended to emphasize facilities, expansion, practical usefulness, and specific influence. Early work included not only the distribution of tracts, Bib...

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...