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doc "This Isn't Japan" (ddr-densho-423-151)

Article written by Mary Oyama describing the Santa Anita Assembly Center and emphasizing that the Japanese incarcerated there are Americans. Reprinted from Common Ground

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-151/

doc "Exclusion Act - 1942 Model" (ddr-densho-423-152)

Article by Clarence W. Hall for The Christian Advocate, criticizing the Exclusion act and its impact of Japanese Americans

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-152/

doc "Gifts to Nisei Children arouse town's ire" (ddr-densho-423-153)

Article reprinted from Fellowship, the journal of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, relating story of group sending Christmas gifts to children at Poston which the local town suspected of being weapons sent by conscientious objectors. Signed in upper right corner: Martha Nozawa

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-153/

doc "The Truth about Topaz" (ddr-densho-423-154)

Editorial reprinted from the Deseret News supporting an investigation at Topaz to show that the Japanese are not, in fact, getting a better deal than Americans.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-154/

doc "Manzanar. . .Relocation Center" (ddr-densho-423-155)

Article by Robert L. Brown, reprinted from Common Ground, describing how Manzanar was built and the infrastructure put into place, asking what the impact will be in the long run for Japanese Americans

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-155/

doc Letter from Oregon Governor Sprague and rebuttal from Ichiro Hasegawa, Richard Higawa, and Ken Sekiguchi from Tule Lake (ddr-densho-423-156)

Letter sent to President Roosevelt and reprinted in the Oregon Journal, arguing that Japanese incarcerees should be forced to work on the sugar beet harvest or be deported to Japan. The detailed rebuttal from Hasegawa, Higawa and Sekiguchi gives exact numbers of available labor, problems with work conditions on the farms, hypocrisy of demanding the removal …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-156/

doc "Democracy and Japanese Americans" (ddr-densho-423-157)

Transcription of pamphlet by Norman Thomas, published by the Post War World Council, criticizing the incarceration and identifying actions to take to protest. Includes letter of support signed by prominent civil rights activists, lawyers, writers and pastors who opposed incarceration: Helen Marston Beardsley, Ernest Besig, John Dos Passos, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Esther Fiske Hammond, Arthur Garfield …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-157/

doc "Evacuation - American Style" (ddr-densho-423-158)

Reprinted from Journal of Social Work reviewing the progress and problems of the early stages of evacuation, "Property of M. Nozawa" written inside front cover.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-158/

doc Commencement Program, University of Minnesota (ddr-densho-423-159)

For Martha Masako Nozawa's graduation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-159/

doc Two term papers by Martha Masako Nozawa (ddr-densho-423-160)

Paper #1: Museum Report for Anthropology 1B, March 1939, sketches from museum collection. Paper #2: Marketing of California Oranges, Home Economics 100, Fall 1941.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-160/