Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records

Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)

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The Rohwer War Relocation Center was a World War II Japanese American concentration camp in Desha County, Arkansas. It was in operation from September 18, 1942, until November 30, 1945, and held as many as 8,475 Japanese Americans forcibly evacuated from California....

Bureau of Sociological Research (Poston, Ariz.)

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Gila River Relocation Center

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Leupp Isolation Center (Winslow, Ariz.)

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Kikuchi, Charles

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Kikuchi was born in 1917 in the San Francisco Bay Area; his father was an Issei barbershop owner; he was placed in an orphanage when he was 8 years old; in 1934 he headed for San Francisco; BA, San Francisco State College, 1939; anonymously published an autobiographical essay, A young American with a Japanese face, in Louis Adamic's anthology titled, From many lands (1939); worked for the CA State Employment Service, surveying Nisei occupations; attended School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley, an...

Thomas, Dorothy Swaine Thomas, 1899-1977

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Dorothy Swaine Thomas was born on 24 October 1899 in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of John Knight and Sarah (Swaine) Thomas. She received her B.A. degree from Barnard College in 1922 and also earned a Ph. D. in 1924 from the University of London School of Economics where she was a recipient of the Hutchinson Research Medal. Between the years of 1924 and 1948, she held research and/or academic appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, Columbia Tea...

Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

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{Text of biographical or historical note, in paragraphs; separate each with paragraph tags} The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten relocation centers constructed as a result of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), which President Franklin Roosevelt signed into effect on February 19, 1942. The Center, located near the town of Cody in northwest Wyoming, held Japanese American internees from 1942-1945. The camp reached a maximum population of 10,767, making it the third largest settlement i...

United States. War Relocation Authority

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From 1942 to 1946, Edward H. Spicer, Anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, was Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority, in Washington, D.C. From the description of United States War Relocation Authority collection, 1942-1947. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29305373 Biography / Administrative History On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order ...

Minidoka Relocation Center

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Concentration camp established by U.S. War Relocation Authority near Hunt, Idaho, for internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. From the description of Records, 1942-1945. (University of Idaho Library). WorldCat record id: 42926264 ...

Grodzins, Morton

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Manzanar War Relocation Center

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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...

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...

Leighton, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1908-2007

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Alexander Leighton graduated from Princeton University in 1932, a Master's degree from Cambridge University, and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. During his psychiatric training he was granted a Social Science Research Fellowship, which allowed him to carry out field work among the Navajo under the sponsorship of Columbia University in collaboration with his wife and fellow resident Dorothea Cross Leighton. From the description of Alexander H. and Dorothea Cross Leighton Na...

Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)

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Nishimoto, Richard S. (Richard Shigeaki), 1904-1956

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Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.)

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Fisher, Galen Merriam, 1873-1955

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Online Archive of California

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Granada Relocation Center

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Records accumulated by Yatsutoshi Yoshizawa in the course of his duties as a member of the Block Managers Assembly. From the description of Records, 1943-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 26282043 The Granada Relocation Center opened on Aug. 27, 1942, near the southeastern Colorado town of Granada (sometimes referred to as Amache, after the daughter of a Cheyenne chief). Most of Granada's inmates were transferred there from the Merced and Santa Anita Assembly Centers in C...

Central Utah Relocation Center

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Miyamoto, Shotaro Frank, 1912-

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Frank Miyamoto began his association with the University of Washington Sociology Dept. as an undergraduate in the 1930s. He received a master's degree in sociology and his thesis, "Social Solidarity Among the Japanese in Seattle," was published by the University of Washington Press. Miyamoto chaired the Sociology Dept. from 1965-1970 and was associate dean of social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1975 to 1980. Miyamoto's teaching and research focused on social psychology, coll...

University of California, Berkeley. Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study.

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