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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

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

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