Returning home

When the camps closed, Japanese Americans were handed $25 and put on trains headed for the places they had been forcibly removed from nearly four years earlier. Harassment was common -- many returning Japanese Americans were greeted with signs reading "No Japs Allowed." Other discovered their property had been vandalized or stolen. Homes and businesses that had been boarded up or left in the care of others were abandoned and stripped of furnishings and goods. For the majority, who did not have homes to return to, housing was the most serious problem. Housing discrimination was severe in many areas and persisted to varying degrees until the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. Former camp inmates with no other options moved into hostels and converted community institutions with conditions not much better than the camps they had just left. Although this period was stressful, it is remembered as a time when people came together to share what they had.

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doc Newspaper clippings from scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-359)

Six articles from the Pacific Citizen and Oregonian, one of which is titled "From Camp to College: 3000 Japanese Americans Have Enrolled in 550 U.S. Schools Since Evacuation."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-359/

doc Newspaper clippings from scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-354)

Six articles from the Pacific Citizen, Oregonian, and the Baptist Youth Paper on resettlement of Japanese Americans. One of the articles is titled: "Race Relations Council Sends Officials to Discuss Evacuee Problem with Agency Heads."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-354/

doc Scrapbook page: "Citizens' Committee" (ddr-densho-35-383)

Newspaper clippings frim the Minidoka Irrigator, Oregonian, Pacific Citizen, and Oregon Journal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-383/

doc Scrapbook page: "The Fujimoto Case" (ddr-densho-35-374)

Newspaper clippings from the Oregonian, Oregon Journal, and Gresham Outlook. One of the articles is titled: "Court Orders New Trial In Nisei Property Case."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-374/

doc Resettlement articles from scrapbook (ddr-densho-35-352)

Articles from the Christian Science Monitor, Minidoka Irrigator, and Pacific Citizen. One of the articles is titled: "Economic Rivalry Influenced Army's Exclusion Ban - Sun."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-352/

doc Advertisement for anti-Japanese meeting (ddr-densho-35-365)

Advertisement for a meeting held by the Oregon Property Owners' Protective League, Inc.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-365/

doc Sunday Oregonian article (ddr-densho-35-358)

Article from scrapbook page titled "Japanese Evacuees: Where Do They Belong."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-358/

doc Scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-371)

Newspaper clippings from the Oregon Journal and an advertisement for a mass meeting from the Gresham Outlook.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-371/

doc Scrapbook page: "Gresham Area (cont'd)" (ddr-densho-35-372)

Four articles from scrapbook page, one of which is titled: "Stand Taken on Japanese: Several Speak at Gresham Meeting." Newspapers include the Oregonian and Gresham Outlook.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-372/

doc Scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-392)

Newspaper articles titled: "Racial Test Arrives in California," "MacNaughton Will Speak on Japanese," and "'On Being Nisei...'" Newspapers include the Christian Science Monitor, Minidoka Irrigator, and Oregon Journal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-392/

doc Newspaper clippings from scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-350)

Various articles from the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, one of which is titled "Japanese Land Owners Prepare to Return Here."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-350/

doc Notes from Oregon Property Owners' Protective League meeting (ddr-densho-35-367)

The subject of this meeting is titled: "League to deport citizens of Japanese ancestry." The notes consist of exerpts taken from speeches made at the meeting.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-367/

doc Scrapbook page with one article (ddr-densho-35-401)

Newspaper clipping from the Christian Science Monitor titled "Keiko Is Home."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-401/

doc Scrapbook page: "The Portland Area" (ddr-densho-35-382)

Various newspaper clippings, one of which is titled: "Council Defeats Anti-Japanese Resolution." Newspapers include: the Minidoka Irrigator, Portland Labor Press, Oregonian, and Oregon Journal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-382/

doc Scrapbook page: "Evacuees Return" (ddr-densho-35-351)

An assortment of newspaper articles from the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, one of which is titled "First Arrest Made for Shot at Nisei House."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-351/

doc Scrapbook page: "Attitude of the Church" (ddr-densho-35-357)

Various articles from the Oregonian and Oregon Journal, one of which is titled "Gresham Pastors Take Stand on Race Question."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-357/

doc Newspaper clippings from scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-364)

Three articles and one photograph on Gresham, Oregon anti-Japanese groups. Newspapers include: Gresham Outlook and Sunday Oregonian.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-364/

doc Newspaper clippings from scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-386)

Various articles from the Oregonian and Oregon Journal. From scrapbook page titled: "Expressions of Public Opinion - Examples of Letters Against Japanese Americans."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-386/

doc Chicago Defender article: "'Little Tokyo' Converted To Hodgepodge Of Negroes, Japs" (ddr-densho-35-143)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-143/

doc Scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-379)

Various newspaper clippings, one of which is titled: "All Created Equal." From scrapbook page titled: "Some Expressions of Public Opinion on Action of Hood River Legion."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-379/

doc Yank Magazine article: "The Nisei Problem" (ddr-densho-35-355)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-355/

doc Scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-380)

Newspaper clippings from the New York Times, Oregonian, and Oregon Journal, one of which is titled: "All Created Equal." From scrapbook page titled: "Some Expressions of Public Opinion on Action of Hood River Legion."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-380/

doc Scrapbook page (ddr-densho-35-373)

Various newspaper clippings, one of which is titled: "Gresham Group Begins Coastal Anti-Jap Move."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-373/

doc American Concentration Camps VOLUME 8 1944 and 1945 Japanese of Hawaii (ddr-densho-372-8)

Volume 8 divides into five sections. Description about this volume reads directly from the book as follows: Part 1 features archival documents from 1944 and 1945 that depict the winding down of the relocation program. Part 2 features selected pages of a Congressional Record from February 23, 1944 and June 23, 1944 that resulted in the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-372-8/

doc Letter from Alvin Uchiyama to Kathleen Koga Uchiyama (ddr-densho-406-175)

Wants her to find a place in San Jose rather than go with his family, thanks her for the shoes, wants another baby as soon as he gets home.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-406-175/