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Collection Name:
United States War
Relocation Authority Collection,
Inclusive Dates:
1942-1946
Physical Description:
9 linear feet
Abstract:
Publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and
other materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during
World War II.
Collection Number:
MS 042
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Historical Note
The U.S. War Relocation Authority was responsible for the relocation,
internment, and reintegration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World
War II. From 1942 to 1946, Edward H. Spicer, Anthropology professor at the
University of Arizona, was Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War
Relocation Authority, in Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content Note
Publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and other
materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during World
War II.
The largest group of material encompasses Community Analysis Reports
from 11 individual relocation centers. The centers were located in Poston and
Rivers, Ariz.; Denson and Rohwer, Ark.; Manzanar and Newell, Calif.; Amache,
Colo.; Hunt, Idaho; Oswego, N.Y.; Topaz, Utah; and Heart Mountain, Wyo. The
center at Oswego, N.Y. housed war refugees from southern Europe.
The next largest group of materials is comprised of official W.R.A.
pamphlets, as well as typescript studies by various W.R.A. personnel, including
Spicer. These studies are often concerned with sociological issues such as
racism, the effects of center life on the evacuees, and their attitudes about
Japan. Among the newspapers, two are in Japanese: the "Washington Daily News
Digest," 1945, and an issue of the "Doho," 1943, from New York. Incoming and
outgoing correspondence relates both to Spicer and John F. Embree, of the
Community Analysis Section; also Dillon S. Myer of the W.R.A. Some letters are
from the community analysts informally reporting events at the different
relocation centers.
Statistic reports include relocations by state, and returns to the West
Coast by city. Government documents relate to House and Senate bills and
resolutions, cases before the Supreme Court, the administration of alien
property, and hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Among the miscellaneous items are maps, organizational charts, the official
administrative manual, information on Buddhism, transcripts of speeches and
radio broadcasts, bibliographic citations, and poetry written by center
residents. Black-and-white photographs are well-identified by place,
photographer, subject, and often individuals' names. They depict the centers;
W.R.A. officials; soldiers of the all-Japanese American 442nd Combat Team
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,
the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The
user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the
University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Information Digest (for use of the
W.R.A. staff). Miscellaneous Numbers.
, January 1944-September/October
1945
7
6
Washington Daily News Digest (in
Japanese). Miscellaneous Issues.
, May-September 1945
7
7
Miscellaneous Newspapers:
Doho (Japanese) N.Y.,
Inside Interior (Department of
Interior),
Northwest Times ("Only All-English
Nisei Newspaper in Pacific Northwest) Seattle,
Pacific Citizen (Official
Publication of Japanese Americans League), Salt Lake City.
, 1943-1947.
Miscellaneous Papers. Jerome Relocation Center, Denson,
Arkansas.
, 1943-1946
15
5
Community Analysis Reports, nos. 50,
69, 100, 114, 136. Miscellaneous Papers. Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar,
California.
, 1943-1946
15
6
Community Analysis Reports, nos.
1-349.
, 1943-1946
15
7
Miscellaneous Papers.
, 1943-1946
15
8
Studies by Morris E. Opler:
A History of Internal Government at
Manzanar, March 1942-December 6, 1942 and
The Repatriate-Expatriate Group of
Manzanar.
, 1944
box
folder
16
1
Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho:
Community Analysis Reports, nos.
267-349.
, 1943-1946
16
2
Miscellaneous Papers. Rohwer Relocation Center, Rohwer,
Arkansas.
, 1943-1946
16
3
Community Analyst Weekly Trend
Reports, nos. 1-33.
, 1943-1946
16
4
Miscellaneous Papers. Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell,
California.
, 1943-1946
Photographs: Japanese at Work After Resettlement.
, 1942-1945
17
10
Photographs: Making Mochigoni (a Japanese Bread) at One of
the Camps. Includes 31 Assorted Publications about the Japanese by Other
Authors than W.R.A. Staff Members.
, 1942-1945
War Relocation Authority Publications and Reports.
, 1943-1946
Includes:
Administrative Highlights of the WRA Program.
1946
Aims and Plans of WRA by D.S.
Myer. In Japanese. 1943
Annual Report of the Director.
1943-1944 and 1944-1945
By-Product of War by Ruth E.
McKee. No Date
Community Government in War Relocation
Centers. 1946
Education Program in War Relocation
Centers. 1945
The Evacuated People: A Quantitative
Description. 1946
Information for Employees of the
War Relcoation Authority. Induction Kit. No Date
Legal and Constitutional Phases of the
WRA Program. 1946?
Myths and Facts About Japanese
Americans. June 1945
National and Local Organizations and
Agencies Maintaining Programs for Japanese Americans: A Directory. June
1946
New Neighbors Among Us. August
1944
Nisei in the War Against Japan.
April 1945.
Nisei in Uniform. 1943?
People in Motion: the Postwar
Adjustment of the Evacuated Japanese Americans. 1946?
Pertinent Facts About Relocation Centers
and Japanese Americans. No Date
Questions and Answers for
Evacuees No Date
Relocating a People. No
Date
Relocating Japanese-American Evacuees. No
Date
Relocating Japanese Americans.
May 1945
Relocation Communities for Wartime
Evacuees. September 1942
Relocation of
Japanese-Americans. May 1943
The Relocation Program. 1946
The Relocation Program: a
Guidebook for the Residents of Relocation Centers. May 1943
Segregation of Evacuees. No
Date
The Segregation Program: a
Statement for Appointed Personnel in WRA Centers. No Date
Token Shipment: the Story of
America's War Refugee Shelter. 1946
Uprooted Americans in Your
Community. May 1945
WRA: A Story of Human
Conservation. 1946
The War Relocation Work Corps: A
Circular of Information for Enlistees and Their Families. No Date
Wartime Exile: the Exclusion of
the Japanese Americans from the West Coast. 1946
The Wartime Handling of Evacuee
Property. 1946
What We're Fighting For:
Statements by United States Servicemen about Americans of Japanese Descent. No
Date
Your Job as Reports Officer. No
Date
box
folder
19
1
Bohannan, Laura, A.,
Law and the Japanese in the United
States.
19
2
Freed, Anne,
The Changing Japanese Family in the United
States.
19
2
Freed, Anne,
Evacuee Participation in
Segregation.
, 1943
19
2
Freed, Anne,
Family Relocation Counseling. General.
.
, 1944
19
2
Freed, Anne,
The Issei and Relocation.
, 1944
19
3
Luomala, Katharine,
California Attitudes About the Amount of
Publicity Desirable for Returning Evacuees.
, 1945
19
3
Luomala, Katharine,
California Takes Back Its Japanese
Evacuees.
, 1945
19
3
Luomala, Katharine,
Community Analysis Outside the Relocation
Centers. Paper Given at Society of Applied AnthropologyConference, NYC.
, May 1946
19
3
Luomala, Katharine,
Fellow Californians are Fellow
Americans.
19
4
McKee, Ruth,
History of WRA to June 30, 1944. .
, 1944
19
5
Myer, Dillon S.,
War Relocation Authority (2 drafts).
19
6
Provinse, John H.,
The Development of a War-Time
Community (2 drafts).
, 1946
19
6
Provinse, John H.,
Proposal for a Comparative Study of the
Treatment of Persons of Japanese Ancestry During World War II in Mexico,
Canada, Hawaii, and Continental United States.
, 1945
19
7
Sady, Rachel R.,
Issei Attitudes Toward Japan.
, 1944
19
7
Sady, Rachel R.,
Issei Points of View.
, 1944
19
7
Sady, Rachel R.,
Plan for Study of Leave Clearance
Denials.
, 1944
19
7
Sady, Rachel R.,
Sit Tighters.
, 1945
19
8
Spicer, Edward H.,
An Analysis of Requests for Repatriation and
Expatriation.
, 1944
19
8
Spicer, Edward H.,
Current Problems of Japanese American
Adjustment.
, 1945
19
8
Spicer, Edward H.,
The Effects of Center Life on the Evacuee
Population.
, 1944
19
8
Spicer, Edward H., First Generation Japanese Americans
(unfinished).
19
8
Spicer, Edward H.,
History of the Community Analysis
Section.
, 1945
19
8
Spicer, Edward, H.,
Japanese Americans Educated in Japan
(rough draft).
, 1944
19
8
Spicer, Edward H.,
On Being Pushed Around.
19
9
Spicer, Edward H., Racism in Reverse: the Story of the WRA
(Final and Several Preliminary Drafts).
19
10-11
Spicer, Edward H. and others,
Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the
Relocation Centers (2 drafts).
19
12
DeYoung, John,
Chapter IV: Background to the Resettler
Community.
, 1945
19
12
Embree, John F.,
Dealing with Japanese Americans.
, 1942
19
12
Kimball, S.T.,
The Caucasians Make the Rules.
, 1945?
19
12
Lantis, M.,
Possible Family Reactions to Liquidation of
the Centers.
, 1944
19
12
McVoy, Edgar C.,
Discussion of Relocation Problems.
, 1943
19
12
Marks, E.B.,
Factors Influencing Morale in Relocation
Centers.
, 1944
19
12
Mercer, Inez,
Suggestions for Job Relations Training at
Relocation Centers.
, 1944
19
12
Powell, John W.,
American's Refugees: Exodus and
Diaspora.
, 1943
19
12
Rademaker, John A. and Lind, A.W.,
An Examination of the Underlying Causal
Factors Related to the Differences in the Treatment Accorded to Americans of
Japanese Ancestry in theContinental United States and in Hawaii.
19
12
Thomas, Dorothy,
Study of the Evacuation and Resettlement of
Japanese on the West Coast.
, 1942
19
12
Tynes, Richard,
No Time for Hate.
19
12
Bureau of Sociological Research, Colorado River War
Relocation Center,
The Japanese Family in America.
