Yamashita Family Archives

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1942 6 29 Kay to Mr. Moriyama_Page_1.jpg
Kay talks frankly about how bad Tanforan and the assembly centers are. She also comments about the different nature of administration: the military administration of assembly centers vs. the civilian war relocation authority administration of the…

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1942 7 3 Telegram offering Kay a job.jpg
Kay is offered job as junior typist in D.C. by telegram

1942 7 21 Kay to Mr. Moriyama _Page_1.jpg

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1942 7 23 Robert Inglis to Kay_Page_1.jpg
Inglis says he came to visit on the wrong day. (visitation rules at Tanforan?) Also he says he wants to come again in August to preach.

1943 (?) 10 26 Mrs. Duveneck to Kay_Page_2.jpg

Undated, christmas card from Elizabeth Knowlton to Kay_Page_1.jpg

1943 1 16 Kay to Ms. Howey_Page_1.jpg
Kay writes about the emotional states of students in camp: cynical, bitter, broken, stoic, determined, and radiant. She also writes about getting permanent leave permit, but is staying to work for student relocation in the camp because there is so…

1943 2 1 Letter from George Lafabregue to Leave Officer .pdf

A2_ pg121-123 date2_23_43.pdf
Martha, at Washington University in St. Louis writes updates to Kay- thirty JA students met up to talk about how they could share notes. They don't want to make a formal group, only a workshop, so as not to be "an obvious congregation of Japanese."…

1943 2 24 Kay to Social Security Board_Page_1.jpg
She mentions that when she left Tanforan to testify in the Ryder Case, she was offered a job to stay in Washington D.C., but couldn't take it because she was traveling with her mother. Her former boss had tried to get her a job outside of the camp…

Kay describes (pg 4) discussion groups/ workshops, one pertaining to the "Negro Problem" and "how their problem relates to ours." Other workshops were on the history of Japan taught by a kibei. Kay also gives lots of personal updates.

Undated, Virginia to Kay_Page_1.jpg
Virginia says that Remo (her husband?) is working a lot as a steel-worker building ships.

1943 3 4 Fellowship of Reconciliation to Kay.jpg
The Fellowship of Reconciliation reaches out to Kay as allies on the outside of camp. Note: Members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation work with Gordon Hirabayashi and visit him when he is in jail in Washington State for refusing evacuation orders.

1943 3 6 Mrs. Duveneck to Kay.jpg
Josephine Duveneck hears that Kay was not allowed or approved to leave Topaz to go to Philadelphia to work (not sure why). Duveneck is looking into getting Kay to go to the Chicago office of AFSC.

1943 3 7 Mrs. Duveneck to Kay_Page_1.jpg

1943 3 26 Lefebregue to Kay.jpg
Lafebregue thanks Kay for her work on student relocation.

1943 4 2 Kay to Duvenecks_Page_1.jpg
Kay thanks them for Christmas gift of fabric. Tomi will sew a dress but has to wait her turn on the block sewing machine. An elderly man was fatally shot for getting to close to the barbed wire fence. The M.P. was court marshalled.

1943 4 19 Kay to Margaret_Page_1.jpg
Kay writes about discussion groups in camp on African Americans (she mentions Richard Wright's book, 12 Million Black Voices) and Japan's political history, Kay asks Margaret for a loan of $100 to move to Chicago.

1943 5 5 Martha to Kay_Page_1.jpg
Martha writes from Poston, Arizona that she is very cherred up by Kay's letter and care for her wellbeing since her other friends at Topaz haven't been writing her. She worries that she won't be able to find a job if relocated and needs to make money…

Undated, Easter card to Kay_Page_1.jpg
About getting Kay out of camp
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