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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…
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…
Mitsu, Margaret, Jane and Roy Nakai and baby, Manzanar Relocation Center
The photograph depicts the Nakai family in their living quarters from within the Manzanar Relocation Center. The photograph shows two women as well as three younger children, the photograph being one of many families whom found themselves placed into…
Letter to Helen McNary from Fusa Tsumagari, Arcadia, California, August 9, 1942
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…
Their Best Way to Show Loyalty: An Editorial
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…
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…
“To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”
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,…