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Semi-annual report

Description:
Documents the WRA's transfer from independent war agency to Department of the Interior. Includes general description of life in incarceration camps, including reaction of incarcerees and enlistment. Includes report of the House Sub-Committee on the Tule Lake Incident, the closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, and tables and charts showing average incarceration camp populations.
Date:
1944 January 1-June 30
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections
Semi-annual report

Address. Ben Kuroki

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Address. Ben Kuroki

Alfred Thomas Quinn Wins Boxing Championship

Description:
"Frequent upsets occur in SMJC boxing matches. "The next bout was a 'honey.' Alfred Quinn and Gerald bell put on a classy performance characteristic of professionals. Lanky Quinn threw a few semi-circle punches to floor Bell twice in the first round. Quinn went ahead to take the third round and the championship." Other names mentioned: Robert Hayashi and Ko Yamada.
Date:
undated
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Quinn, Alfred Thomas Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Alfred Thomas Quinn Wins Boxing Championship

Address. Dillon S. Myer. "Relocation Problems and Policies"

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
OpenUCLA Collections
Address. Dillon S. Myer. "Relocation Problems and Policies"

A Barrack Becomes A Home: A Cooperative Project in Homemaking by the Students of the Home Economics and Woodshop Departments of the Manzanar Secondary School

Description:
Pamphlet prepared by Beatrice White, Home Economics Supervisor, Manzanar Secondary Schools, documenting class projects. Includes photographs of a typical Manzanar barrack interior and of altered barracks.
Date:
1945 January 5
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections
A Barrack Becomes A Home: A Cooperative Project in Homemaking by the Students of the Home Economics and Woodshop Departments of the Manzanar Secondary School

Segregation : West Side Story

Description:
Newsweek National Affairs column on the incident of race discrimination by the West Side Tennis Club against Ralph Bunche, Jr., son of UN diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph J. Bunche. Article includes an AP photo of Ralph Bunche, Jr. with the caption: "...as Ralph Bunche Jr. found out".
Date:
July 20, 1959
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Bunche (Ralph J.) Papers
OpenUCLA Collections
Segregation : West Side Story

Wartime Exile: The Exclusion of the Japanese Americans From the West Coast

Description:
Report on the justification for incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans, including a history of Japanese travels to North America beginning 1610, and general descriptions of Japanese and Japanese American populations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle. Gift of Bradford Smith.
Date:
1946
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections
Wartime Exile: The Exclusion of the Japanese Americans From the West Coast

Eulogy note for childhood friend Flora-Boswell

Description:
Handwritten notes for Flora Boswell memorial service on Al Quinn Santa Monica College Stationary. "Flora--Boswell. Flora and Bobby Dottie and Al: Memories- beautiful memories, Not with remorse but with thankfulness. Beautiful times, loving times. Hopeful times. Time of challenges and change. Times of pain, of pride, of joy. Times for questions, doubt, high expectations. Time for loving one another boanellessly [sic]. Flora Dora: She did it her way. FLora Dora-Queen for all that's good and right."
Date:
undated
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Quinn, Alfred Thomas Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Eulogy note for childhood friend Flora-Boswell

Alfred Thomas Quinn 135 lb Boxing Division

Description:
"Final Boxing Matches" Lyle Anderson takes on Gerald Bell in the 135-pound division. Alfred Quinn and Roy Odell mix it in another 135-pound bout. "...Notice how the colored fellow in the fights sure knocked the vanilla out the Gerry Bell. Being a Bell fan, got my tongue wrapped around my eye tooth and couldn't see what I was saying and yelled the famous words: 'stop that bloody battle!'"
Date:
undated
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Quinn, Alfred Thomas Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Alfred Thomas Quinn 135 lb Boxing Division

The Negro in Chicago Politics

Description:
The article addresses the issue of increasing participation of African Americans in Chicago politics. This is the first article published by Bunche, National Municipal Review, Vol. XVII, No. 5, May 1928. This is the copy of the article as marked by the magazine editor and sent to the printer
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Bunche (Ralph J.) Papers
OpenUCLA Collections
The Negro in Chicago Politics

Legal and Constitutional Phases of the WRA Program

Description:
Pamphlet designed to ease agitation and anti-Japanese American sentiment. Questions addressed include: Japanese religion and ties to emperor, Japanese Language Schools, Nisei (a person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan) in the Army, honesty of the Japanese as a race, assimilability of the Japanese, agricultural Competition, and coddling by the WRA.
Date:
1945
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections
Legal and Constitutional Phases of the WRA Program

Ralph Bunche On Integration : U.N. official says major breakthrough approaching : interview, the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.

Description:
Newspaper article, topped by a 13 x 24 cm. photograph with the caption: "Scenes like this from Birmingham, with police dogs used against negro demonstrators, have caused "very bad reactions" in Asia, Africa and Europe, says Ralph Bunche, Negro United Nations undersecretary, Bunche believes the situation climaxes a long struggle". Article also includes a photograph of Ralph Bunche with the caption : Ralph J. Bunche "Built-in impatience". Also includes a political cartoon by Justus, Minneapolis Star, with the caption: Extra! Extra! U.S. Race Riots All About the Race Riots in America
Date:
June 9, 1963
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Bunche (Ralph J.) Papers
OpenUCLA Collections
Ralph Bunche On Integration : U.N. official says major breakthrough approaching : interview, the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.

Letter from Koshi Ando, Manzanar Internee Camp (copy)

Description:
Letter from Koshi Ando to Alfred Quinn dated Wednesday 6 May. Page 1. The letter describes the location of Manzanar near Lone Pine and its layout of barracks and rooms. Ando names several friends: George Izumi, George Hattori, Henry Tanak and Tom Ichien and their activities. Page 2. Ando continues to describe Manzanar including dust storms, lack of privacy, armed guards on duty and the potential for making Manzanar seem more homelike. Envelope addressed to Mr. Al Quinn in Santa Monica, California from Koshi Ando in Manzanar, California. Block 18 Building 1 Apartment 4.
Date:
1942
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Quinn, Alfred Thomas Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Letter from Koshi Ando, Manzanar Internee Camp (copy)