Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: japanese-american internment oral
histories
Dates: 2001
Collection number: MSS 296
Collector:
Sparks, Edith
Collection Size: .5 linear feet
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Dept. of
Special Collections
Stockton, California 95211
Abstract: This collection contains audio interviews,
transcriptions, photographs, genealogical information, letters and related
newspaper clippings of Japanese-American who were kept in Relocation Centers
during World War II.
Physical location: For current information on the location
of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as
the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
researcher.
Preferred Citation
japanese-american internment oral histories. MSS 296. Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.
Biography / Administrative History
In the fall of 2001, University of the Pacific professor Edith Sparks
assigned her students to interview nine Japanese-Americans who lived in San
Joaquin County and were sent to Relocation Centers during World War II.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains audio interviews, transcriptions, photographs,
genealogical information, letters and related newspaper clippings of
Japanese-American who were kept in Relocation Centers during World War II. In
addition to discussing life before, during, and after the time spent at the
Relocation Centers, many of the narrators focus on how family dynamics changed
while in the camps. Some interviewees compare the persecution of Muslims in the
wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to what the Japanese-Americans
went through during World War II.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Rohwer Relocation Center.
Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Gila River Relocation Center.
Japanese-American Evacuation and
Relocation - 1942 - 1945.
Oral history - 20th century.