Box 20
Container
Contains 65 Collections and/or Records:
Excerpts of Letter from Sgt. Mike Masaoka to Joe Grant Masaoka from Italy, 1945 September 9
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 12
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0012
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy of a slightly different version of a letter found previously in the folder (item 7).
Letter from Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas to Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., Regional Director of The American Council on Race Relations, Pacific Coast Regional Office, 1945 October 29
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 13
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0013
Scope and Contents
In this letter, Helen says "I will do what I can on the Japanese matter. I will try to see Harold this week before I start on my talking junket of ten days. I will also see Tex. You put the case very clearly."
Letter from Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., Regional Director of The American Council on Race Relations, Pacific Coast Regional Office to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 February 5
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 14
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0014
Scope and Contents
Hewes states in this letter that he is returning Secretary Ickes' letter of November 12, thanks Douglas for her thoughtfulness, and says he is "greatly encouraged at the Secretary's letter".
Letter from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1945 November 12
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 15
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0015
Scope and Contents
This letter discusses Secretary Ickes' discomfort with forced internment, the treatment of the Nisei, and willingness to support a bill before Congress. Secretary Ickes states in this letter that "We were confronted with the alternative of pushing many of the Japanese out or of maintaining them in what really were concentration camps for months or years to come."
Letter from Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, 1945 November 3
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 16
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0016
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy of a letter which forwards other material onto Secretary Ickes.
Letter from Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas to Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., Regional Director of The American Council on Race Relations, Pacific Coast Regional Office, 1946 January 7
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 17
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0017
Scope and Contents
The letter is mistakenly dated and should be dated January 7, 1946. The letter states "Dear Larry: Here is the letter. Return it when you have finished with it. Sincerely yours, Helen Gahagan Douglas".
Editorial: "Not a White Man's Act" from the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona), 1945 April 28
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 18
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0018
Scope and Contents
This appears to be the editorial referred to in Ruth Kingman's letter found previously in this folder (item 2).
Letter to the Editor: "Fascism, American Brand" by Patricia McGregor to The Daily Californian (Berkeley, California), 1945 April 26
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 19
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0019
Scope and Contents
Letter to the editor discusses terrorism attacks on Japanese-Americans in California.
Letter from Thomas M. Cooley, II, Director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit, Department of Justice to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1946 May 15
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 20
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0020
Scope and Contents
Cooley states in the letter that "there was no discretionary power to stay the deportations of so-called 'Treaty Traders' who have lost their status because of the abrogation of treaties by the war" and makes reference to Section 19(c) of the 1917 Immigration Law (8 U.S.C. 155) and Section 303 of the National Act of 1940 (8 U.S.C. 703).
Housing: 14th District.
File — Box: 20, Folder: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_1_0000
Scope and Contents
The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials document her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of material on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Other topics of note include the...