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Box 1

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Memoranda and Policy Statements

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents This folder contains "Relocation and the Constitution," and "Rumors and Rumor Control Groups." There is also a radio interview script with Dillon S. Myer, director of WRA, discussing relocation. There are descriptions of WRA position of Reports Officer and Information Specialist. There is a newsletter of WRA, and there is a policy statement of WRA and providing food for relocation centers.
Dates: 1941-1945

Japanese-American Policies

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents These policies include information about the production and circulation of information in the Japanese language, dealing with Japanese Americans discussing Japanese culture, Japanese-Americans in relocation camps, and explanations of Japanese holiday meanings and importance. There are policies dealing with Japanese social, economic, religious, and military groups and associations in the US. This folder also contains K. D. Rignle's , which is a compilation of memoranda dealing with the...
Dates: 1941-1945

Segregation Policy, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents This folder contains Administrative Instruction No. 100 outlining the policy of separating evacuees of doubtful loyalty from loyal evacuees, and designating Tule Lake as the relocation center for disloyal evacuees. There is a report on the formation of a special committee to conduct interviews with evacuees to determining loyalty. There is a report estimating the number of evacuees to be relocated to Tule Lake. There is a report on procedures for transferring evacuees and discussion of...
Dates: 1943

US Congressional Subcommittee on Un-American Activities

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents This folder contains Herman P. Eberharter's minority report, expressing support of the WRA, with a summary of the majority report outlining the changes of incompetence brought against the WRA. There is also a press release from Dillon S. Myer, director of the WRA, responding to the Dies Committee Charges. This folder also contains Public Law 139, Congressional appropriations for the WRA.
Dates: 1941-1945

Magazine Article Abstracts

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents This folder contains abstracts of magazine articles dealing with evacuation and relocation. The majority of the articles support the relocation operation of Japanese-Americans, but a few authors are highly critical and reject the entire concept.
Dates: 1941-1945

Weekly Press Reviews, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents This folder contains newsletters issued from the WRA, which summarize news items and articles in national and local papers, dealing with Japanese relocation. The newsletters only cover the weeks of 20 April, 26 May, 17 June, and 1 September 1943.
Dates: 1943

WRA Quarterly Reports, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents This folder contains the first and second WRA quarterly reports. The contains a chronology of events of evacuation and relocation, movement of Japanese-Americans to temporary assembly centers, and a history of selection and construction of relocation centers including their organization, facilities, prospects for evacuee employment, and community life. The continues with progress and growth of relocation, including a chronology of events during this period, a report on the transfer of evacuees...
Dates: 1942

United States Congressional Reports, 1941-1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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 ...
Dates: 1941-1943