Memorandum: Correction of a Previous Memorandum of January 15, 1943

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Title: Memorandum: Correction of a Previous Memorandum of January 15, 1943
Published / Created: 1943 January 20
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: Purchased from William Reese Co. on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2010.
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 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 7

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
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

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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.