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Application for Leave Clearance form, WRA-126

The source, informally known as the “Loyalty Questionnaire” is an example of the questionnaires the War Relocation Authority sent into internment camps to assess the loyalty of Japanese people. This form needed to be filled out before the individual…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, Eliibility, Japanese American, Japanese Ancestry, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Loyalty, Loyalty Questionnaire, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, Tule Lake, War Relocation Authority, WW2

Barracks To House Evacuated Japanese

The photograph depicts builders working on a Barracks block in preparation to build the huge center at Manzanar. The photograph has an attaching caption noting that the barrack block in the photograph as being only one of what would be 350 barrack…

Tags: 20th century, California, construction, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Mandatory evacuation, Manzanar Relocation Center, Photograph, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, So Cal, Southern California, WW2

Short-Term leave Authorization, WRA

This source is a written authorization of leave written by the WRA (War Relocation Authority). The WRA was the agency tasked with handling the internment of people of Japanese Ancestry during the Second World War. The paper states that a ‘Thomas…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, Japanese Ancestry, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Leave Form, Manzanar Relocation Center, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, Thomas Michibiku Ozamoto, War Relocation Authority, Western Defence Command, WW2

Barrack 9, Apt. 6, San Bruno, CA

This is an unframed, sketched painting depicting the new living quarters in which the Hibi family are living in at the Tanforan Assembly Center. The painting depicts several barracks which were the housing for the Japanese people within the…

Tags: 20th century, Art, Barracks, California, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camps, Mandatory evacuation, Painting, Racial Tensions, Racism, San Bruno, Second World War, Tanforan Assembly Center, WW2

Sharp Camp following the evacuation order for persons of Japanese ancestry

The photograph depicts Aliens at Sharp Camp, California following the evacuation order for people of Japanese ancestry. The camp seen in the photograph was set up to serve as a detention centre were people were given hearings. The Japanese people…

Tags: 20th century, California, Discrimination, evacuation, Japanese American, Japanese Ancestry, Japanese Immigration, Japanese Internment, Japanese Internment Camp, Mandatory evacuation, Photograph, Race Relations, Racial Tensions, Racism, Second World War, Sharp Camp, WW2

Letter from the assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Priority Records regarding NWA’s track, Fuck tha Police

Typed letter addressed to the office of Priority Records in California from the Milt Ahlerich, the assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The letter regards the track ‘Fuck tha Police’ by the rap group N.W.A. expresses concern for…

Cover of Time Magazine 11 May 1992

Image of a group of armed riot police running down a street with a blazing fire in the background caused by rioters in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. TIME written in bold red letters at the top of the cover, a motif of Time Magazine. Underneath there is…

Tags: California, Conflict, Culture, Front Cover, Illustration, LAPD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Magazine, Photograph, Protest, Race, Racial Tensions, Riot Police, Riots, Rodney King, TIME Magazine, Violence, Youth

Japanese Canadians arriving at Tashme Camp

It is a photograph of Japanese Canadians arriving at Tashme Camp, which was a World War II internment camp in British Columbia. There is a long line of children, one to two deep, with some adults behind them. The centre of the picture shows a car,…

Tags: 20th century, Asian Immigration, British Columbia, Immigration, Japanese, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Racial Tensions, Second World War, Tashme Camp, Wartime Internment

Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia

The source is a black and white photograph of Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia.

The picture shows a group of males getting on board a train along with a women and child.

The photograph was taken in 1942 during the…

Tags: 20th century, Asian experience, British Columbia, Discrimination, Japanese, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Political Discrimination, Race Relations, Racial Tensions, Railway, Second World War

Head tax certificate for Jew Chew Gee

This source is a handwritten document of a head tax certificate for the individual Jew Chew Gee. The source shows the number of the certificate. It is also signed by the Chief controller of Chinese immigration.

The source shows how Chinese…

Tags: 20th century, Asian experience, Asian Immigration, British Columbia, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese Immigrants, Chinese immigration, Employment, Head Tax, Immigrant, Immigration, Race, Race Relations, Racial Tensions, Tax Certificate

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