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TitleMemo about Disappearance of Barbadian Workers
Date Created1945-08-11
DescriptionDuring the war, the War Manpower Commission (WMC) coordinated the recruitment of migrant guestworkers from the British West Indies. Because guestworkers entered the United States with specific...
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)
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TitleLetter regarding release from Seabrook Farms [sic]
Date Created1947-09-08
DescriptionIn September 1947, Takeda was released to the custody of his attorney Wayne Collins, a leading civil liberties lawyer who represented both Nisei and Japanese Peruvians. Collins arranged for Takeda to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter regarding cancellation of renunciation of citizenship
Date Created1958-10-29
DescriptionIt took until 1958 for the federal courts to reach a decision in Takeda's case. A letter from Collins notes that in the end, the judge ruled that Takeda's renunciation of his citizenship was never...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleAlien registration card
Date Created1947-09-08
DescriptionSenichiro Takeda renounced his U.S. citizenship in protest of his incarceration. In September 1947, still detained at Tule Lake, he was issued an alien registration card.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleLetter from H. Leon Yager to Ellen Noguchi Nakamura, December 26, 1944
Date Created1944-12-26
DescriptionBy December 1944, 817 internees had been released to Seabrook Farms. The total number would exceed 2,500, although many Issei and Nisei returned to California after the war's end.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitleEllen Nakamura, Notice of Assignment and Discharge Papers
Date Created1944-08-31
DescriptionAs a Relocation Guidance Committee Secretary, Nakamura received $19 a month in wages.
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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TitlePersonal sketch of 2nd Lieutenant Charles A. Dunn
Date Created1868-1890
DescriptionTells the personal memories of the Civil War. Item found in mylar, originally in three pieces. (Stryker’s Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War reveals no sign of a 2nd...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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TitleNotice of Dissolution of Partnership, 1897.
Date Created1892-01-13
DescriptionA notice of voluntary dissolution of partnership between William Reed and Clarence Randolph, Jamuary 13th, 1897. From that point forward, William Reed would be the sole owner of the book and...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)