Box 20
Container
Contains 65 Collections and/or Records:
Newspaper Article: "Klan Revival Feared in L.A. Cross-Burning", Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express, 1946 May 13
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0008
Scope and Contents
2 photocopies of the same newspaper article. From the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express Night Edition, Vol. LXXVI, No. 41. The article features two photographs: one of the remains of a burned cross in front of an African-American home and the other of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Hickerson.
Newspaper Article: "Burning Cross Linked to L.A. Race Housing Fight", The Los Angeles Sentinel, 1946 May 16
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 9, Item: 9
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_9_0009
Scope and Contents
5 pages of the same photocopied newspaper article and its continuation onto another page of the newspaper. From the Los Angeles Sentinel, Vol. XII, No. 19. Features several photographs.
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 January 7
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 1
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0001
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy letter that appears to be forwarding a letter from Douglas to Hewes.
Letter from Ruth W. Kingman, Executive Secretary of the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, Inc. to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1945 May 24
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 2
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0002
Scope and Contents
Letter asks Douglas to give consideration to an editorial from the Arizona Daily Star and the condemnation of the forced interment of Japanese-American citizens.
Letter from Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., Regional Director of The American Council on Race Relations, Pacific Coast Regional Office to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1945 October 19
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 3
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0003
Scope and Contents
Letter discusses Hewes' recent trip to Washington, the Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the Director of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Dillon Myer, closing of relocation centers, hardship of former evacuees, evacuees' return to the West Coast and policies formerly preventing them from doing so, Douglas' view on the forced internment program, excerpts from letters of former evacuees, housing issues and overcrowding in hostels and temporary housing, points of action for Dougas, and...
Letter from Joe Grant Masaoka, Regional Representative of the Japanese American Citizens League to Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority, 1945 October 9
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 4
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0004
Scope and Contents
Letter disucsses War Relocation Authority (WRA) freight storage, difficulties of returnees to find housing, closing of internment centers, other needs for former evacuees and returnees.
Letter to the editor of Safety Valve of the San Francisco Chronicle titled "What Price Prejudice" by Joe Grant Masaoka, Regional Representative of the Japanese American Citizens League, 1945 October 9
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0005
Scope and Contents
Letter to the Editor regarding the use of Japanese prisoners of war in central California counties to harvest crops.
Excerpts of Letter from Sgt. Mike Masaoka to Miss Annie Clo Watson from Tombolo, Italy, 1945 July 25
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 6
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0006
Scope and Contents
Excerpts of a letter sent from Italy regarding decorations given to the Second Battalion, movements in Italy since the previous spring, soldiers' disappointment in scheduled return home, members of Battalion from Hawai'i, Dillon Myer and the War Relocation Authority (WRA), relocation centers, guarding German Prisoners of War (POWs), Camp Snellling, and 30 day furlough.
Excerpts of Letter from Sgt. Mike Masaoka to Joe Grant Masaoka from Tombolo, Italy, 1945 September 9
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 7
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0007
Scope and Contents
Excerpts of letter discussing War Department consideration of volunteers and decorations, opinion on all Nisei in the Army being discharged, increased regulations in the Army after the end of World War II Pacific theater and V-E Day, and resettlement in United States.
Letter from Laurence I. Hewes, Jr., Regional Director of The American Council on Race Relations, Pacific Coast Regional Office to Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas, 1945 October 19
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 5, Item: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_20_5_0008
Scope and Contents
Carbon copy of a slightly different version of the letter found earlier in the folder (item 3).