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1945 WRA Green Bill
Provides an overview of the Green Bill which proposed that relatives (parents and spouses) of people who served in the military during WWII (and for some WWI) would be granted access to citizenship (where before they could not before because of…
1944 4 14, Letter from Myer to Nason
D. S. Myer (director of the War Relocation Authority) writes to John Nason (president o the National Japanese Americna Student Relocation Council and preident of Swarthmore College) about what he envisions or proposes for the future of the National…
1945 12 18 Letter from Dept of Justice to National Conference on Japanese Americans, regarding renunciants and repatriation
The War Division of the Department of Justice replies to recommendations for Japanese Americans made by the Conference on Japanese Americans. The policy is established: no Japanese aliens and renunciant American citizens of Japanese ancestry will be…
1945 9 4 Department of Justice Press Release about keeping Tule Lake and others interned after most are released from camps
The Department of Justice releases a statement saying that the people detained at Tule Lake and Justice Department camps are not released as are people from all of the other camps. The attorney general, Tom C. Clark, will review these cases. “These…
1945 12 4 Letter from Esther Rhoads to Fort
Esther Rhoads responds to Fort about a AFSC report that was published that was highly critical of WRA workers. She writes about the progress in opening up more than half of 30 hostels to Japanese Americans moving back to Southern California, the work…
1945 12 4 Letter from Rhoads to Morris
Rhoads writes to Morris, responding with her dismay at a report that was circulated from the Service Committee to hostel directors that was harsh or critical in tone (may have been about WRA workers or some service workers mistreating people? See…
1945 10 5 Letter from Esther Rhoads to Fort
Esther B. Rhoads, of the Southern California AFSC Branch based in Pasadena writes to the AFSC Philadelphia office. She expresses concerns that G. Raymond Booth is trying to pass federal legislation to keep the camps open. Rhoads thinks the Friends…
1942 2 2 Missoula Alien Enemy Detention Center
Floyd Schmoe reports to AFSC in Philadelphia about a visit to the Missoula, Montana detention center. He provides great detail about the camp and the organization, physical layout, family members visiting their fathers/husbands. He also makes…
1945 12 26 Letter from Nakamura to Morris
Nakamura writes to Morris about the Crystal City Detention Center in Texas where Peruvian nationals of Japanese ancestry are being held. Most of them have already been sent to Japan (prisoner exchanges?). The roughly 40 families who remain want to…
1944 1 2 Letter from Gordon Hirabayashi to Homer Morris of the AFSC
Gordon Hirabayashi who was imprisoned for defying the evacuation orders and was represented in a case which challenged the Executive Order 9066. In this letter, he asks Morris for his opinion on whether or not he should participate in petitioning to…
