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Chizu and Nurse Aides in front of Topaz Hospital
Official WRA photo of "Nurses Aides" in front of Topaz hospital. We know that Chizu was a registered nurse but she is in the photo in the back row in front of the door. She is short and you can see her hair parted in the middle.
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 Nisei college leaders report on Japanese in camp
The National Japanese American Student Relocation Council organized for nisei leaders who were relocated to college campuses return to the camps they left for 4-6 weeks during their summer break to study what camp in life is like, and how nisei…
1944 5 7 Letter from Nisei high school graduate in Manzanar to the Student Relocation Council
Mizumoto writes personally about his childhood (in white areas and in Terminal Island) and his reason for wanting to be a lawyer. His parents discourage him from trying to go to college or write poetry. (His poem "Manzanar" won a prize.)
1944 3 27 Letter from Nason to Myer
Nason writes about the future role of the Nation Japanese American Student Relocation Council. He wants the work to be slowed down and ultimately terminated. While others like Bodine are interested in the Council taking an even more active role…
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 11 29 Letters between from Robertson Fort and Yone Nakazawa, and her brother in law, Karl Nakazawa. She was born in Japan, educated in the U.S., interned and now fears deportation.
Robertson Fort, secretary of Japanese American Relocation of the Philadelphia AFSC writes to Yone and Karl, trying to be of help to them. He mentions a trial happening in D.C. The brother in law served in the army. He asks for assistance from…
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…
1942 10 2, Letter from 20th Century Fox to Waring
20th Century Fox defends their motion picture, Little Tokyo, U.S.A. in a letter written to the lawyer for the American Friends Service Committ. Fox defend the depicition of Japanese spying (I believe this may refer to spying by Japanese Americans).…
1945 1 3, Letter from Morris to Hirabayashi at Tule Lake
Homer Morris of the AFSC writes to Hirabayashi about a continetious objector or someone who objected to the "war method."
Undated (around June 21, 1943), letter from Gordon Hirabayashi to Homer Morris
Gordon Hirabayashi writes to Homer Morris about ways that the WRA could assist in making resettlement better for those who are leaving the camp for jobs in the Midwest and East. He wants this process to go well so that more will leave the camps and…
1944 4 29 Letter from Tom Bodine to Swan
Describes conditions in Jerome Camp, in Arkansas. Bodine writes that there are very negative relations between the evacuees and the WRA staff there because of prejudice.
1945 1 10, Conference on Interracial Coordination
Describes an agenda to pressure municipal, state government jobs to hire Japanese evacuees back and to encourage other fields to hire Japanese on equal terms with white citizens.