Written and illustrated by residents of Topaz, this 55 page collection of stories and articles recounts the experiences and feelings of the Japanese Americans forced to leave cherished homes, jobs, possessions, and pets for the dusty, stark...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes
February 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama and Marii Kyogoku, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor and Tom Yamamoto as contributing artist. Articles and stories...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Velez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This is the holiday issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor, this issue contained the following articles: State of the City by Taro Katayama;...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Geology -- Utah; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Guidebook to the Central Utah Relocation Project in Topaz, Utah describes to incoming residents the layout, facilities, and services of the center. Illustrated by Yuri Sugihara, the guidebook contains maps, building layouts, a diagram of the...
Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
In 1980, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was established to review the facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation of American citizens and permanent resident aliens during World War II and "recommend...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights
This report contains more than 100 tables and charts detailing statistics and characteristics describing the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were under the jurisdiction of the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Data...
Japanese Americans -- Statistics; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Report describes how the War Relocation Authority was established, organized, and managed. It covers in detail the logistics of setting up, staffing, supplying, and then closing the centers. One section covers the agency's records management of...
Report describes the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York where 1,000 refugees of various European nationalities were brought to the United States from Italy by order of President Roosevelt in 1944; they were to be returned...
Fort Ontario State Historic Site (Oswego, N.Y.); World War, 1939-1945--Refugees
This report examines how property owned by West Coast Japanese Americans in 1942 was handled when they were forced to go to relocation centers. Table of Contents: Legal Provisions for Controlling the Assets of Enemy Nationals in Time of War;...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Property; Farm ownership
This report examines the phases of the WRA program in relation to legal issues. It is broken into 3 sections: I. The constitutionality of evacuation and detention; II. Legal considerations in the development of center management policies; III....
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)...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
This report examines the postwar adjustment of relocated Japanese Americans during the 18 months following the closure of the Japanese American relocation centers in 1945. Begun in July 1946, the study was "to analyze the effects of the evacuation...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This report begins by examining how the relationship between Japanese Americans living on the West Coast in 1942 with other residents led to their being singled out for evacuation and placement in relocation centers after the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Describes Japanese migration to the U.S. before World War II, characteristics of the Japanese-American people who settled on the West Coast, the myths and prejudices surrounding them, and how they were treated following the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
June 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced by the residents of the Topaz Relocation Center. This issue was edited by Toku Okubo and Nobuo Kitagaki with Mine Okubo as art editor and Alfred Sawahata as contributing artist. ...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
Leading roles in Il Trovatore are portrayed by, left to right Maxfield Lund as Manrico, Lu Dean Bailey as Leonora, Colleen Bowcutt as Azucena; not pictured: Wesley Hill as Count di Luna. Directed by Prof. Walter Welti, the opera played February...
Utah State University -- History -- Pictorial works; College theater -- Utah -- Logan -- Pictorial works; Lund, Maxfield -- Portraits; Bailey, Lu Dean -- Portraits; Bowcutt, Colleen -- Portraits; Utah State Agricultural College -- History --...
