Public Law 100-383, called the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, acknowledged "the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment" of people of Japanese ancestry during World World II.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Law and legislation
Memorial address given December 3, 1944 by Masaru Narahara for 10 Japanese American soldiers who died in action. Narahara, chairman of the Community Council at the Topaz Relocation Center where the address was given, paid honor to the memory of 10...
Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center
West Cache Irrigation Company minute books: 1961 to 1976. Typescript with some printed items laid in. Founded in 1898, the West Cache Irrigation Company built a large irrigation canal system starting at Riverdale, Idaho and ending in northwest...
West Cache Irrigation Company (Utah)--Records and correspondence; Irrigation canals and flumes--Cache Valley--History;
Betty Bear, and her daughter Paula Bear Wright, speak about their experiences ranching in Elko County. They also talk about their acquisition of Capriola’s store, saddle making, leather working and other details. Interviewed by Randy Williams and...
Short biographical sketch of Laura I. Mickelsen ancestry. Typescript of articles published in the The Journal in Logan, Utah between December 1923 and May 1924.
Logan (Utah)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--History; Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Biography; Logan (Utah)--Biography; Mickelsen, Laura Ingemann, 1844-1934;
In this letter to the editor of the Logan Herald Journal, her hometown newspaper, Laura Merrill writes from the Topaz Relocation Center, describing the small libraries she oversees as the Center's Librarian and what life is like inside Topaz. This...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Libraries; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963 -- Correspondence; Letters to the editor -- Utah -- Topaz
Written in October 1942 to staff of the War Relocation Authority, this paper stresses the importance of understanding the cultural background of the Japanese Americans living in relocation centers. It describes common behavior patterns among the...
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs
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
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
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
Professor Barre Toelken talks about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood memories in Quabbin Valley Massachusetts--before the dam--including his families’ folk song/ballad traditions, throughout his education and career in folklore.;
Annual report of extension service, 1956. County extension agents -- Davis County, State of Utah. From November 1, 1955 to October 31, 1956. Annual reports narrate the agricultural extension work carried out in Davis County, including reports on...
Agricultural extension work--Publications--Utah--Davis County; Home economics extension work--Publications--Utah--Davis County; Davis County 4-H Club;
Annual report of Extension Work, Agricultural Agent, Weber County, State of Utah, 1923. Written by W.P. Thomas, County Agricultural Agent. From December 1922 to December 1923. Annual reports narrate the agricultural extension work carried out in...
Annual report of the Extension Work, Agicultural Agent, Weber County, State of Utah, 1941, by A.L. Christiansen, County Agricultural Extension Agent; Max E. Conrad, Assistant Agricultural Extension Agent; Deola Seegmiller, Home Demonstration Agent;...
Agricultural extension work--Publications--Utah--Weber County; Home economics extension work--Publications--Utah--Weber County;
Community High-Road to Better Things (Senior manual, 1935-1936, Mutual Improvement Assoc., Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). Includes Reading / by Harrison R. Merrill and Hobbies / by Claire Stewart Boyer in collaboration with Charlotte...
Community life; Mormons--Social conditions; Mormon youth--Social life and customs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Reading; Hobbies;
Annual report of the Extension Work, Agicultural Agent, Weber County, State of Utah, 1936, by Hazel Bingham, Home Demonstration Extension Agent; A.L. Christiansen, County Agricultural Extension Agent; F.M. Petersen, Assistant Agricultural Extension...
Agricultural extension work--Publications--Utah--Weber County; Home economics extension work--Publications--Utah--Weber County;
Utah State Farmers' Institutes, annual number five, for the year ending June 30, 1901. College Bulletins issued quarterly, Vol. 1, no. 3, October 1901. Annuals of Farmers Institute and Housekeepers Conference recorded the season's institute work,...
Agricultural College of Utah; Agricultural extension work--Utah; Farmers' institutes--Utah; Home economics extension work--Utah; Housekeeper's Conference--Utah; Dairying--Utah; Fruit thinning--Utah; Fruit trees--Utah; Livestock--Utah; Sanitation,...
Utah State Farmers' Institutes, annual twelve, for the year ending June 30, 1909. College Bulletins issued quarterly, Vol. 9, no. 5. "This number is devoted to poultry." Annuals of Farmers Institute and Housekeepers Conference recorded the seasons...
Agricultural College of Utah; Agricultural extension work--Utah; Farmers' institutes--Utah; Poultry; Home economics extension work--Utah; Housekeeper's Conference--Utah;
Utah State Farmers' Institutes, annual number seven, for the year ending October 31, 1904. College Bulletins issued Quarterly, Vol. 4, no. 3, October 1904. Annuals of Farmers Institute and Housekeepers Conference recorded the season's institute...
Agricultural College of Utah; Agricultural extension work--Utah; Farmers' institutes--Utah; Home economics extension work; Home economics extension work--Utah; Irrigation--Utah; Reading; Poultry; Dairying--Utah; Horses;
The Butterflies of North America. First series by William H. Edwards. With: Synopsis of North American butterflies by William H. Edwards. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. The original contains green half calf binding over dark maroon cloth;...
History of Mendon : A Pioneer Chronicle of a Mormon Settlement by Isaac Sorensen. Also called Isaac Sorensen's History of Mendon. Edited by Doran J. Baker, Charles S. Peterson, Gene A. Ware ; introduction by Charles S. Peterson ; photographic...
Sorensen, Isaac, 1840-1922; Willie, James Gray, 1821-1897; Frontier and pioneer life--Utah; Mills and mill-work--Utah--Cache County; Cache County (Utah)--Diaries; Railroads--Utah--Cache County; Mendon (Utah)--History; Cache County (Utah)--History;...
Article from Utah Historical Quarterly (v. 73, no. 1, Winter 2004) describes the status of civil rights in Utah about the time of the Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education case ended segregation of public schools. ---- On the surface it may...
USU alumnus and former basketball player Darnel Haney was interviewed at his home in Ogden on July 31, 2006. He talked about his parents and his childhood in Phoenix, Arizona where he was the first black athlete to play high school basketball. He...
Haney, Darnel L. -- Interviews; Race discrimination -- Utah -- History; School integration -- Arizona -- Phoenix; Race discrimination -- United States; African American athletes -- Interviews; African American teachers -- Interviews
This excerpt from the Congressional Record from the 85th Congress, August 18, 1958 obstensibly discusses the nomination of W. Wilson White for Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights. Several senators such as Thurmond, Eastland,...
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock; School integration -- Law and legislation
