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1945 5 10, Letter from Homer Morris to Caleb Foote
Letter is about the WRA final decision to close the internment camps at the end of the year
1945 2 26 Letter from Kay to Folks
Kay decides that she will move to Chicago and has resigned from her job in student relocation, despite being offered more pay. She consideres it her moral and ethical obligation to leave and not accept more money. She also believes that a Nisei…
1945 2 14 Letter from John to Kay
John tells Kay about all the people that he has visited on his way to Bay Region. (Long list of names including a talk with Howard Thurman) and suggests to Kay that she move to Chicago to live with Tomi. He tells her that he thinks he will settle in…
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 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 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…
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 12 1 Letter from William Inouye to Tuleans
William Inouye, formerly interned at Tule Lake, encourages fellow Tuleans to move to Philadelphia where he now lives. he describes welcoming Hakujin Quakers who have supported issei and niseis there. He finished college and works as a chemist and his…
1945 12 1 Letter from Wakefield to Brinton with report from conditions in Tokyo inserted in middle
Wakefield writes that of a meeting of 65 national agencies working with Japanese Americans, some find that there has been grave concerns of issue and nisei on the west coast who have been deprived of civil rights. They are experiencing problems…
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…
1945 11 29 Letter from Morris to Conard about Renunciants
Morris to discusses the history for how renunciation of U.S. citizenship was created by the WRA as an option for Japanese Americans in camps. It was a response to threats of much more grave legislation to allow for the automatic deportation of all…
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…
1945 10 26, Letter from Raymond Booth of the Council for Civic Unity to Clarence Picket of AFSC
Describes housing crisis in Los Angeles, eviction of Filipinos and Mexicans and others from Bunker Hill for highway contstruction and urban renewal projects, and the incoming of 1200 Japanese evacuees each week to Los Angeles. Booth recommends…