Title:
Community Government in War Relocation Centers, 1946
Alternative Title:
Community Government in War Relocation Centers
Creator:
United States. War Relocation Authority
Creator:
United States. Department of the Interior
Subject:
Japanese Americans
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Subject:
Central Utah Relocation Project
Subject:
Central Utah Relocation Center
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Attitudes
Subject:
United States. War Relocation Authority
Description:
Report examines the development and function of community government within the relocation centers. It describes early debates on how centers should be governed, problems caused by differences in attitudes and values held by alien Japanese (Issei) and those with American citizenship (Nisei and Kibei), and the negative reaction of evacuees to the exclusion of Issei from elective office as well as to the questionable extent of self-government allowed. Several violent incidents, the Poston Strike and Manzanar Riot, are discussed. Other points of conflict arose with regard to the forced registration of center residents and relocation policies. The last section describes the All-Center Conference held in Salt Lake City in February, 1945 organized and financed by evacuees from all the centers to discuss concerns about the closure of the centers announced in December, 1944.
Publisher:
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library; United States. War Relocation Authority; United States. Department of the Interior
Date:
1946
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf
Medium:
administrative reports
Identifier:
GOVI52p2cC73s3-1946.pdf
Identifier:
ark:/85142/t4670104220946
Identifier:
http://n2t.net/ark:/85142/t4670104220946
Citation:
United States. War Relocation Authority (1946). Community Government in War Relocation Centers, 1946 [Online Resource]. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, U.S. Government Documents, I 52.2:C 73/3 1946. USU Digital History Collection. Retrieved from: http://n2t.net/ark:/85142/t4670104220946
Source:
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, U.S. Government Documents, I 52.2:C 73/3 1946
Language:
eng
Digital History Collection:
Topaz Japanese American Relocation Center Digital Collection
Place:
Washington, D.C., Washington County, Washington, D.C., United States, http://sws.geonames.org/4140963/
Time Period:
20th century
Time Period:
1940-1949
Rights Statement URI:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Rights Statement:
No Copyright - United States
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