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Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records
BANC MSS 67/14 c  
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Description
The collections consists of surplus copies of the U.S. War Relocation Authority agency documents, including publications, staff papers, reports, correspondences, press releases, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and a few photographs. Included is the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, University of California, Berkeley, 1942-1946, containing evacuee diaries and letters and staff correspondence, reports and studies.
Background
On February 19, 1942, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the assembly, evacuation and relocation of over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. From March 1942-1946 the U.S War Relocation Authority (WRA) had jurisdiction over those evacuated from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington and southern Arizona. During its existence from March 1942 to 1946, the WRA controlled the administration of the relocation centers, administered an extensive resettlement program, and oversaw the details of the registration and segregation programs.To study the effects of mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, in 1942, sociologist professor Dorothy Swaine Thomas at University of California, Berkeley, organized the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The Study recruited and placed UC Berkeley professors and Nisei social science students into selected WRA sites: assembly centers, camps and resettlement communities. JERS ran until the end of the World War II.
Extent
250.5 linear feet (335 boxes, 84 cartons, 41 oversize volumes (folios), 7 oversize folders, 2 oversize boxes; 380 microfilm reels; 5,660 digital objects)
Restrictions
Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For additional information about the University of California, Berkeley Library's permissions policy please see: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/permissions-policies.
Availability
The collection is open for research with restrictions. Digital surrogates and/or microfilm are to be used instead of originals. Use of originals is permitted only by written permission of the curator.