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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 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 photograph

Date Created1950-1955

DescriptionEllen Nakamura, who had been interned at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, served as a recruitment scout for Seabrook Farms. She regularly communicated with H. Leon Yager, the WRA official in...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleLetter from Aitken to Seabrook

Date Created1944-05-06

DescriptionThis letter, from Bridgeton Mayor Bertram F. Aitken to C.F. Seabrook, discusses why town officials preferred relocated Japanese Americans to “the undesirable southern Negro labor.” Racist...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleMemo on German POWs

AuthorSeabrook, J. M.

Date Created1944-06-17

DescriptionSeabrook Farms acquired 150 German prisoners of war who were being held at a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Parvin State Park. Seabrook issued strict guidelines to its employees on...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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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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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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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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TitleYoung college students working on the corn line

Date Created1945-1946

DescriptionWhite officials in the South often prevented black agricultural laborers from migrating as seasonal laborers, and the agreement between Local 56, the STFU, and Seabrook Farms was described by Jack...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)