Relocation Supplement- New Orleans, 1945

File — Box: 16, Folder: 8

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Japanese American relocation collection (1941-1945) are divided into four series: the WRA, the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the Topaz Relocation Center and the Topaz Times. The WRA papers contain materials issued by the agency, such as policy statements, quarterly reports, newsletters, and pamphlets. The Tule Lake section contains correspondence, quarterly reports, special project reports, histories, and studies of relocation, copies of the Tulean Dispatch, the center's daily newspaper, and examples of artwork by evacuees. This material demonstrates the organization and administration of these camps, and presents a good picture of the evacuees' daily lives and problems associated with relocation environment. The Topaz papers contain additional general material on relocation and a number of studies and papers of the Topaz center. Many of these studies deal with the educational system that was established at Topaz. The Topaz Times contain a near complete collection of the newspaper of the Topaz Relocation Center, as well as other newsletters concerning daily life in the center.

As well as containing material relating to life in relocation camps, the collection also contains papers dealing with more specific problems and policies. Included are materials from the US Subcommittee on Un-American Activities (The Dies Committee) investigating the WRA, the establishment of the WRA segregation policy of separating loyal from suspected disloyal evacuees, and the problems and violence associated with the resistance to the Selective Service registration program.

Dates

1945

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this Collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.