Support from the non-Japanese American community

During mass removal and incarceration, Japanese Americans received outside support and assistance from religious organizations, civil rights groups, and other concerned individuals. The American Friends Service Committee was one of the most active groups to help the Japanese American community during World War II. Committee members donated educational materials to the camp schools and libraries and were influential in persuading the government to allow Nisei to leave the camps for colleges in the interior of the country. Ministers, peace activists and other supporters of the Japanese American community often visited the camps and spoke out publicly against the incarceration. Church groups across the country also organized clothing and food drives for the camp inmates.

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doc Letter from H.L. Stafford, Director, Minidoka Project, to Mrs. Jessie C. Toms, February 11, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-1292)

Correspondence from H. L. Stafford, Project Director at the Minidoka incarceration camp, to Jessie C. Toms requesting a character reference for Bob Nogaki Ihara. Includes handwritten notes. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1294

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1292/

doc Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Mary Tsukamoto, November 24, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-35)

Typed correspondence from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mary Tsukamoto thanking her for her letter and inquiring about her future plans. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_00038

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-35/

doc Letter from Mrs. Jessie C. Toms to H.L. Stafford, Director, Minidoka Project, February 15, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-1293)

Correspondence from Jessie C. Toms to H. L. Stafford regarding her reference for Bob Nogaki Ihara. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1295

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1293/

Form letter from Heart Mountain requesting that letters be written to government officials regarding relocating to the west coast (ddr-csujad-55-968)

doc Form letter from Heart Mountain requesting that letters be written to government officials regarding relocating to the west coast (ddr-csujad-55-968)

Form letter requesting that letters be written to government officials regarding rescindment of Exclusion Orders and advocating for permission for Japanese Americans to return to the west coast. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0970

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-968/

Balance sheet of Japanese evacuation: untruths about Japanese-Americans our two Japanese-American policies are the evacuees being coddled?: what race-baiting costs America (ddr-csujad-55-355)

doc Balance sheet of Japanese evacuation: untruths about Japanese-Americans our two Japanese-American policies are the evacuees being coddled?: what race-baiting costs America (ddr-csujad-55-355)

Pamphlet reporting on and critiquing common misconceptions about Japanese Americans, the incarceration, government policy, and the War Relocation Authority. Reprinted from the Christian Century August 18 and 25, and September 1 and 8, 1943. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0357

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-355/

doc Letter from Grace Waegell to "Mama," April 15, 1942 (ddr-csujad-55-2313)

Correspondence from Grace Waegell to "Mama" regarding updates about family and friends in the central California area during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2419

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2313/

doc Democracy and Japanese Americans (ddr-csujad-55-344)

Pamphlet describing "evacuation", incarceration, court cases including Wakayama, Korematsu, Yasui, Hirabayashi, and Kanai, and the civil liberties issues surrounding the treatment of individuals of Japanese descent during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0346

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-344/

doc Postcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka, August 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-2014)

Postcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka in the Jerome incarceration camp including a greeting and update from Cooke. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2117

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2014/

doc Letter from Mark W. Clark, General, U.S.A., Commanding, to Lieutenant Frank S. Okusako, November 8, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-234)

Correspondence from Mark Clark to Frank Okusako regarding Clark's letter of support for Okusako. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0236

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-234/

doc A message for our neighbors on the day of evacuation (ddr-densho-498-1)

A letter of concern, apology, condolence, and love from the Mrs. Woods, Pres. of Oakland Council of Church Women, Lawton Harris, Executive Secretary of East Bay Church Federation, and Robert Inglis, Pres. of East Bay Ministers' Fellowship to Japanese Americans being evacuated from Oakland, California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-498-1/

vh Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1000-84-35)

Writing to social service groups outside camp

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-84-35/

vh Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-84-31)

Organizing a YWCA banquet in Minidoka, "I persuaded them to stop at camp"

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-84-31/

vh Nobu Suzuki Interview I Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-84-28)

Maintaining contacts outside camp: YWCA, American Friends Service Committee

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-84-28/

vh Floyd Shimomura Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-466-7)

Family friends run the farm in Winters during the war

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-466-7/

vh Mitsuye May Yamada - Joe Yasutake - Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 65 (ddr-densho-1000-135-65)

Receiving some visitors in camp, work friends of father's

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-135-65/

vh Mary Kinoshita Ikeda Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-510-25)

Staying in the bishop's home after returning to Seattle

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-510-25/

vh Bob Y. Sakata Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-216-13)

Relocating to Colorado after hearing about the policies of Colorado Governor Carr

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-216-13/

vh Kay Matsuoka Segment 33 (ddr-densho-1000-48-33)

Christian missionaries' weekly visits to camp lead to conversion

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-48-33/

vh Nobu Suzuki Interview II Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-87-6)

Experiencing prejudice on the way to Spokane

References are made to several of Nobu Suzuki's personal papers, which are currently available for public perusal at the University of Washington's Manuscripts and University Archives.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-87-6/