Responses of non-Japanese Americans

The reactions of non-Japanese friends, neighbors and classmates were mixed. Some turned their heads and refused to recognize their former friends. Others believed the government propaganda and became outright hostile. Still others helped their Japanese American neighbors by storing belongings and driving them to the places where they were to be picked up. Perhaps only a handful of people understood the true implications of the course of events.

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doc Letter from Ernest Lefever to President Roosevelt and forwarding by Edward J. Ennis (ddr-densho-1007-1037)

Xeroxed copy. Advocates against the internment of Japanese Americans. Response is from Edward J. Ennis, director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1037/

doc Letter from Lottie C. Hersey to Eleanor Roosevelt and response from Edward J. Ennis (ddr-densho-1007-1033)

Xeroxed copy. Hersey was a member of the Universalist Church. Her letter advocates against the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans. Response is from Edward J. Ennis, director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1033/

doc Letter from R. A. Eisenberg to President Roosevelt and response from Edward J. Ennis (ddr-densho-1007-1034)

Xeroxed copy. Advocates against the internment of Japanese Americans. Response is from Edward J. Ennis, director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1034/

doc Letter from Forrest Lear to Attorney General Francis Biddle and response from Edward J. Ennis (ddr-densho-1007-1035)

Xeroxed copy. Advocates against the internment of Japanese Americans. Response is from Edward J. Ennis, director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1035/

doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-763)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on January 30, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: ideas to support the Japanese American community as it faces discrimination, how to use media to lessen confusion between state and federal orders, working with California's Norther Civil Rights Committee, and questions about who would assist the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-763/

doc Interpreter Releases Vol. XVIII No. 57 Series C: The Foreign Born in U.S.A., No. 13 (ddr-densho-356-838)

Summery of and full text of President Franklin Roosevelt's Proclamation regarding citizens of Japan in the United States. Summery produced by Common Council for American Unity.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-838/

doc Written statement by Mike Masoka on problems facing Japanese Americans for the Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies (ddr-densho-356-762)

A written statement by Mike Masaoka on problems facing Japanese Americans for the Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies. Issues include: decrees in patronage to Japanese owned business, cancelation of insurance polices for Japanese Americans, increased violence towards Japanese Americans, conflicting information regarding state and federal orders being provided to the community, inability to travel, and inability …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-762/

doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-759)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 17, 1941. Topics covered in the meeting include: Japanese travel restrictions, public school reactions, summary of conference with State Employment Department on employment of Japanese Americans, financial issues facing Japanese nationals due to the war, situation facing Italian and German immigrants, and community responses to …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-759/

doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-765)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 6, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: public support for German immigrants, and updates to restrictions on Japanese Americans in California, plans to help effected Japanese Americans.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-765/

doc Pamphlet titled: American Refugees (ddr-densho-329-1052)

Published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-329-1052/

doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 11, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-758)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 11, 1941. Special meeting called to discuss five major problems facing Japanese Americans since the declaration of war. The five issues are: finance, transportation, unemployment, education, and child care.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-758/

doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 23, 1941 (ddr-densho-356-760)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on December 23, 1941. Topics covered in the meeting include: reopening of closed businesses, bank withdrawals, other committees working to address similar problems, travel of Japanese clergymen, stranded Japanese fishermen, fear of travel for Nisei chick sexers, individuals detained by FBI being moved inland, and bullying of …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-760/

doc Interpreter Releases Vol. XVIII No. 57 Series C: The Foreign Born in U.S.A., No. 13 Supplement No. II (ddr-densho-356-840)

Supplement to Interpreter Releases Vol. XVIII No. 57 Series C: The Foreign Born in U.S.A., No. 13. Supplement includes three press releases by the Attorney General from between December 10, 1941 and December 14, 1941.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-840/

doc Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942 (ddr-densho-356-766)

Meeting Minutes from Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies meeting on February 13, 1942. Topics covered in the meeting include: reading correspondence regarding Japanese Americans, discussion about forming an office for gathering information about evacuation, and various types of social assistance to Japanese Americans.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-766/

doc Case Notes (ddr-densho-356-757)

Handwritten notes about reaching out to local business owner.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-757/

doc Brief Analysis of Problems of Enemy Aliens with particular reference to San Francisco (ddr-densho-356-764)

A report from February 4, 1942 on immigrants of German, Italian, and Japanese descent living in California, the issues these communities are facing due to the war, xenophobia, and racism, and what the Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies Family Welfare Council can do to support them.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-764/

vh Michiko Frances Chikahisa Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-347-14)

The support of the Catholic church after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-347-14/