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Home Rule.png
The report highlights the current standing of the Hawaiian Organic act in 1954. It shows the government bodies that were in act years before Hawaii voted to become a state of the United State and what ‘type’ of home rule Hawaii should have. Including…

Leave Clearance form.png
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…

Evacuated Japanese.png
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…

Short-Term leave.png
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…

Barrack 9.png
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…

Helen McNary from Fusa Tsumagari.png
The letter is written from within Santa Anita Assembly Center, the letter first thanks McNary for sending her candy and a book for her to use in the camp. But then speaks of a riot that stemmed from the army from outside San Francisco ordered the…

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A transcript of an editorial piece published by The San Francisco News noting that Japanese people and people with Japanese Ancestry voluntarily evacuating and being relocated is the way to show their loyalty to the state. Notes that people have been…

Aliens at Sharp.png
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…

Signal From Home.png
The Cartoon is titled “Waiting for the Signal From Home” and it shows thousands of Japanese people who are all stereotyped marching from Washington, through Oregon and to California to pick up blocks of explosives from a small shed named “Honorable…

Japanese Ancestry.png
This is a poster that details the mandatory evacuation to any Japanese people living within a section of the City of San Francisco. It states that the instructions stated on the poster apply to both alien and non-alien people of Japanese ancestry,…
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