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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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TitleCollege students working during summer months settle into their apartments and make use of the library facilities
Date Created1945-1946
DescriptionRecruited as part of an agreement between Local 56 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, which represented workers at Seabrook, and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), which represented cotton...
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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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)
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TitlePrefabricated Gunnison Houses being put together in 1952 to be occupied by the overflow of workers for the Seabrook firm
Date Created1952
DescriptionIn the early 1950s, to accommodate the workforce, which had reached its peak, Seabrook's construction firm began assembling 80 prefabricated Gunnison Houses. These opened for occupancy in 1952. As F....
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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TitleInterview with Fred Tadashi
Date Created2010-07-29
DescriptionFred Tadashi Shingu, who renounced his citizenship and was sent to Tule Lake, discusses relocating to Seabrook Farms after the war.
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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TitleDemocratic Party Platform of 1892
AuthorCleveland, Grover
Date Created1892
DescriptionGrover Cleveland's personal copy of the official National Democratic Party's platform of 1892. Presented to Grover Cleveland in June 1892. String-bound booklet with white leather cover. Gold lettering...
Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900)