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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 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 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, 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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Description:: Hardcover yearbook for the Manzanar incarceration camp graduating class of 1944. Illustrated.
Date:: 1943-1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Illustrated pamphlet on Japanese Americans in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Battalion. Includes an article about Ben Kuroki, the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: WRA press releases on subjects related to incarcerees. Two items commemorate the military service of Japanese Americans, including the 110th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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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
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Description:: Student newsletter from Manzanar. Includes senior class wills of last graduating class from Manzanar High.
Date:: 1944 April 6
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Pamphlet on the Manzanar Toy Loan Project, began in 1944. Topics include founding, organization, objectives, floor plan, and mimeographed forms used by the Center. Booklet also includes six black and white photographs of children at the Toy Loan Center.
Date:: circa 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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Description:: Pamphlet attesting to the loyalty of Nisei soldiers.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
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