1945 10 26, Letter from Raymond Booth of the Council for Civic Unity to Clarence Picket of AFSC

1945 10 26, Letter from Raymond Booth of the Council for Civic Unity to Clarence Picket of AFSC

Urban renewal, housing shortage, resettlement, Los Angeles, Bunker Hill

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 housing evacuees in army housing trailer parks that would be better than the camps.  He disagrees that older Japanese people want to stay at Manzanar.  He also predicts rising racial tensions during this housing crisis.

October 26, 1945

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