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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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TitleTranscript of Memorandum to the Peruvian ambassador

Date Created1942-04-18

DescriptionA memo from the U.S. Embassy in Peru to the Peruvian Ambassador in Washington exemplifies widely-held beliefs that ethnic Japanese in the Americas were unassimilable. The letter contends that as "an...

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

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TitleJohn Nykun posing with 'Little Tokio' sign, Great Meadows, New Jersey, April 13, 1944.

Date Created1944-04-13

DescriptionParoled internees had to contend with hostile receptions in many places. White residents of Great Meadows, NJ, including the soldier shown here, protested farmer George Kowalick's decision to hire...

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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TitleI remember my father at Seabrook

AuthorHasegawa, Yoshiko Nakamura

Date Created1965

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Yoshiko Nakamura Hasegawa remembers her father. He emigrated from Japan in 1906 because of economic depression, and moved to California. He steadily worked his way...

Time Period1906, 1965

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TitlePledge of Allegiance

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionSeabrook Farms, similar to the internment camps, promoted a system of limited self-governance. In both situations, Japanese Americans were encouraged to make decisions regarding how the community was...

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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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TitleMap of 10 relocation centers.

Date Created1942

DescriptionThis map shows the location of the ten internment camps in relationship to the Military Zone on the West Coast where "evacuation" was mandatory. The military believed that the West Coast, which...

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

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TitleEstonian and Japanese women in front of doll display

Date Created1950

DescriptionA group of Estonian and Japanese women pose in front of a doll display in 1950, dressed in traditional costumes.

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)