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TitleLetter from Cecil Roach
Date Created1945-06-27
DescriptionCecil Roach fell ill after coming to the United States as a guestworker, and (illegally) went to Boston to receive care from his sister there. In this letter addressed to President Truman, Roach...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleRenewal of Contracts Memo
Date Created1944-11-15
DescriptionWorking conditions, housing, and wages at Seabrook Farms often failed to meet the expectations of migrant guestworkers. As this memo from November 1944 details, of the 97 Barbadian workers at Seabrook...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleBarbadian Workers Deportation Order
Date Created1945-08-17
DescriptionA letter from the WMC to the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization instructs officers with the agency to arrest and send the Barbadians who left their contracts to Florida for deportation.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
4879
TitleDavid Burgess to Mary Dyckman, President of the Consumers League of New Jersey
Date Created1944-04-06
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
4880
TitleVegetable Varieties: Life photo
Date Created1955-01-03
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
4881
TitlePostcard from Seabrook
Date Issued1950
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
4882
TitleDeputized individuals place a striking worker in a chokehold
Date Created1934
DescriptionIn July 1934, Seabrook's attempts to break a newly-formed union and a reduction in wages led workers to strike.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleLetter from Harry C. Smalley, Principal of Bridgeton High School, to H. Leon Yager, WRA, May 25, 1945
Date Created1945-05-25
DescriptionA letter from the principal of Bridgeton High School, Harry C. Smalley, praises Japanese American students and the ease with which they have been assimilated into the student body. Smalley claims that...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from the Roanoke Mayor
Date Created2015-11-18
DescriptionA November 2015 statement issued by David Bowers, the Democratic Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, justifies barring Syrian refugees from resettlement in the city on the grounds that like Japanese...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleCWRIC flyer
Date Created1981
DescriptionAfter extensive lobbying undertaken by Nisei activists and their third-generation children, in 1980 Congress created the Committee on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate the...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), Contemporary America (1968-present)