College summer service in a relocation center
PARTNER
CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project
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OBJECT ID
ddr-csujad-18-5 (CSUJAD Local ID: RSG_06-01_01, CSUJAD Project ID: csun_rsg_0005)
PARENT COLLECTION
CSU Northridge Relief and Support Groups for Japanese Americans During World War II Collection
DESCRIPTION
Call for college students to meet a "desperate need" by serving as group work leaders supporting community activities, arts and recreation, church vacation Bible schools, and boys and girls clubs in either the Gila River or Manzanar Incarceration Camp; flier states that such service would provide the students with the opportunity to "serve significantly in these tragic days"; "come to know these Americans of Japanese descent -- our 'war victims' -- as persons" and to "think and work constructively on the number one question of America and her minorities." Flier mentions supervision by graduate counselors, with "continuous sympathetic help" from War Relocation Authority staff, and the possibility that similar projects may arise in the Topaz, Utah and Poston, Arizona "Relocation Centers." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: RSG_06-01_01
OBJECT GENRE
Broadsides
OBJECT FORMAT
Document
TOPICS
- Activism and involvement
- Geographic communities -- Arizona
- Geographic communities -- California
- Community activities -- Associations and organizations
- Community activities -- Associations and organizations -- Community and social service associations
- Education
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Arts and literature
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Education
- World War II -- Support from the non-Japanese American community
CREATORS
- [Reith, Marian B.?] (author)
- [Maguire, Bruce B.?] (author)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
California State University, Northridge. University Library. Special Collections & Archives
PREFERRED CITATION
Relief and Support Groups for Japanese Americans During World War II Collection, Special Collections & Archives, University Library, California State University, Northridge
RIGHTS
Copyright restricted