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Title	Community Government in War Relocation Centers
Summary	Report examines the development and function of community government within the relocation centers. It describes early debates on how centers should be governed, problems caused by differences in attitudes and values held by alien Japanese (Issei) and those with American citizenship (Nisei and Kibei), and the negative reaction of evacuees to the exclusion of Issei from elective office as well as to the questionable extent of self-government allowed. Several violent incidents, the Poston Strike and Manzanar Riot, are discussed. Other points of conflict arose with regard to the forced registration of center residents and relocation policies. The last section describes the All-Center Conference held in Salt Lake City in February, 1945 organized and financed by evacuees from all the centers to discuss concerns about the closure of the centers announced in December, 1944. The chapters of this report are: I. The early history of policy for community government; II. Problems of community g
Creator	United States. War Relocation Authority
Date Original	1946
Subject	Japanese Americans Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Source	United States, Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority. Community Government in War Relocation Centers. (USGPO, 1946). I 52.2:C 73/3 1946
Collection	U.S. Government Documents
USU Call Number	I 52.2:C 73/3 1946
Publisher	Digitized by: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
Date Digital	2005-11
Type	Text
Format	Image/Jpeg
Digital Specifications	Scanned at 8-bit grayscale using Jazz+ CreoScitex. Archival file saved as uncompressed TIFF at 600 dpi resolution; display file saved as JPEG. OCR text and display pdf generated using CONTENTdm OCR Extension. If pdf does not display correctly, try switching to a different browser.
Language	eng
Rights	This is a U.S. government document and as such is freely available without restriction.
Identifier	UUS_lib_top_i522c7331946

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