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Preferred Citation:
Ardith Pugh Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Processing Information:
Accessioned and minimally processed by Benjamin Bromley in November 2010.
Scope and Contents
Documents (photocopies), circa 1980s, relating to Ardith Pugh's service on the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, created to investigate the incarceration of American citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. This collection consists of photocopies of interviews/testimonies, case files used during the incarceration procedures, and correspondence between government officials, much of which was used by the Commission in its deliberations.
More detailed descritpions can be found at the folder levels.
Related Material
The full report of the Commission is entitled "Personal justice denied : report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians" and can be found Swem Library's Government Document stacks, under the call number Y 3.W 19/10:J 98 pt.1-2.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- World War, 1939-1945--United States--Japanese Americans
Container List
Includes photocopies of interviews/testimonies with a focus on financial loss.
Testimonies include the following people: Albert Nakai (financial losses); Masharu Tanibata (impact on families); Unkown (Wilson H. Makabe?) (financial losses); Kenneth Kinoshita (work); Ewan Yoshida; Lillian Kiyota (property lost); Sam Minami (book copies - how Japanese incarceration affected the produce industry with shortages); Chiyoko Fukumoto (finances); Hideo Endo (financial loss); De Christoforo testimony (Financial loss and suffering because of "questionable" American citizenship; Takeshi Kubota; Matsuye Kamada (property); Fred Ross; Taeko Okamura (lost property); Paul Sagawa (father's financial loss); Homer Yasui; Hugh Harris Anderson (business lost); George Hagiwara (business lost); Tokushige Kizuka (business lost, partially translated); Kazuo Mori (property, dates, and financials); and Japanese farm contributions/losses, hand written analysis.
Includes photocopies of memoranda and interviews/testimonies with a focus on financial loss, guilt and other topics.
Memorandum to Macbeth and Beadsley on classified material in the national archives with handwritten notes; memorandum to Macbeth and Beardsly about hiring of stringer; "financial" testimonies of Henry S. Yoshitake, Yasuko A. Ito, Roy Abbey, Mitsuo Usui and Hiroshi Kamei; "vehicle figure" testimonies of Yoshiko Matsunaga; government document testimonies – with letter from Tom C. Clark to Charles Burdell about creation of America concentration camps( referred to as 'relocation camps') - Kinya Nogucht, Katsuichi Fujita and Takeshi Kubota; "figures given-no basis" testimony of Chizu Matsumoto, James Matsumoto, and Masayoshi and Haruno Yoshinaga; "sale of property by Interior Department" testimonies of D. Imahara, Tom Nakao, and Tom Shimasaki; "read easy" testimonies, stories and correspondence of S. Moorehead (testimony and story) and letter to Marriner from M.S. Szymckak; "guilt by association" testimonies of Roth, Kazuko Ige, Mr. Kageta, S. Matsushita, Clarence Nishizu and Floyd Oles; "guilt by association" material which includes: copy of page from claims of forced removal ('Japanese-American Evacuation Claims'), ledger of financial losses and testimony, copy of chapter 1, The Spoilage, memorandum to Files from W.B. Pollard, letter from Mike M. Masaoka, copy of Agricultural History, copy of exhibits, copies from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland hearings, copy of The Economics and Politics of Racial Accomodation by Modell, and copy of People in Motion by the US Dept of the Interior.
Includes photocopies of interviews/testimonies with a focus on financial loss and agriculture, reports by the Commission, and Senate Support Analysis.
Testimonies of Harold J. Ryan (Los Angeles and San Francisco hearings) and Floyd Oles; copies from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland hearings; and copies of The Economics and Politics of Racial Accomodation, People in Motion. Also includes other documents: Preliminary Chronology Japanese; 1981 Report from Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians about key officials involved in the WWII evacuation; Congressional Support Analysis, Senate votes on Commission Bill and their names and manuscript history of Uprooted History by Dillion Seymour Myer and copies of pages/inteviews.
Includes photocopies of declassified government documents such as plans for segregation, reports of Manzanar Relocation Camp, government officials correspondence, and Japanese espionage activities.
Secret plan for Immediate Segregation of Japanese Evacuees; "Activity of Internees" Confidential: Japanese Relocation Centers, Activities of Inmates; anonymous report discussing problem seen in Manzanar relocation center; FBI report of 8/8/42 Kibai meeting at Manzanar Relocation Camp; letter to McCloy from C.H. Bonesteel, 31 July 1944; Hawaiian Department Request for certain Japanese to Visit Relocation Projects and Japanese Fifth-Column and Espionage Activities.
Includes photocopies of declassified governement documents such as the establishment of segregation centers and government officials correspondence.
Establishment of Segregation Center at Tule Lake/Solution of Japanese Problem./Separation of Kibei from Nisei/etc.; McCloy/Pratt/Fortas/Hechsler letters; Bouge to Gerhard memo; and Special Liaison Report – Lt. Col. Victor R. Hansen.