When you leave the relocation center

Description

Title: When you leave the relocation center
Contributor: Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
United States.--War Relocation Authority
Published / Created: 1945
Abstract: Records related to a community government formed by Japanese American internees at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1942-1945. Material includes reports from committees on health care, social welfare, and education, as well as a charter for the community government. The collection also includes memoranda about camp governance and other publications in English and Japanese distributed by the United States War Relocation Authority, as well as contemporary newspaper clippings about relocation centers and Japanese Americans.
Description: The Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten Japanese American internment camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
Extent: 1 vol. ; 26 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA MSS S-2650
Collection Title: Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Collection Date: 1942-1945
Container / Volume: Box 1 | Folder 40

Format: text
Genre: Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic): Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name): Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
United States.--War Relocation Authority
Subject (Topic): Concentration camps--Arizona
Concentration camps--United States
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Japanese--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans

Access: Public
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Citation: Records Related to the Community Government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.