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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 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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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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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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TitleAmerican Legion questionnaire
Date Created1953-01
DescriptionThe Seabrook chapter of the JACL provided a translated version of American Legion questionnaire. These questionnaires were meant to aid citizen hopefuls applying for naturalization and citizenship to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleNaturalization class students intent on listening to their teachers Mr. & Mrs. Berhbert Brauer of the American Legion
Date Created1952-1959
DescriptionSeabrook championed its “rehabilitation” of Japanese American citizens and immigrants requiring further "Americanization." When the 1952 Walter-McCarran Act permitted Asian immigrants to...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleNewly naturalized citizen voting for the first time
Date Created1950
DescriptionSeabrook continued to document the "Americanization" of Issei and Nisei residents after Issei gained citizenship. Here, the camera captures an Issei man performing a quintessential act of democracy...
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleWounded Japanese veterans at Seabrook
Date Created1942-1959
DescriptionJohnny "Pineapple" Kubota, Michi Nishiura, and Richard Ouchi pose for a picture at Seabrook. Kubota, on the left, lost his leg fighting in Italy and, after the war, convalesced in Atlantic City before...