Genre: speeches (documents) / Resource Type: text / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Address by Sergeant Ben Kuroki, U.S. Army Air Force, before the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA (sponsored by the WRA). Details Kuroki's experience with racial prejudice while in the army, and calls for the humane treatment of Japanese Americans in the future. Kuroki was previously awarded with two Distinguished Flying Cross Medals.
Date:: 1944 February 4
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA, before the Tuesday Evening Club in Pasadena, CA. Details the operations of the incarceration centers in response to Hearst newspapers' claims that incarcerees were coddled; Meyer also contends that Japanese Americans must be protected and allowed to resettle.
Date:: 1944 March 14
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA in Eagle Rock, CA. Provides brief overview of forced removal process after 1943 and argues for resettlement of Japanese Americans.
Date:: 1945 June 19
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA, before a joint meeting of civic organizations in Salt Lake City, UT. Includes descriptions of life in the incarceration camps, and argues for the resettlement of Japanese Americans.
Date:: 1944 March 23
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA, before a luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Town Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
Date:: 1944 January 21
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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