Title:
Manzanar Free Press
Creator:
Manzanar Relocation Center. United States. War Relocation Authority.
Subject:
Manzanar Assembly Center (Manzanar, Calif.)
Concentration Camps -- United States -- Newspapers
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Newspapers
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Description:
This six page representative issue of the Manzanar Free Press published July 27, 1942 includes an occasional column entitled,
"What the World is Saying" quoting letters to the editors from national newspapers concerning the Japanese American internment.
The issue also includes articles with headlines such as ""Eleven Newcomers Arrive from Other Assembly Centers," "Mimeographed
Japanese Supplement for Issei," and an editorial entitled "Let Us Have Faith," encouraging Nisei to have faith in democracy.
The Manzanar Free Press was published 3 times a week and included news articles, editorials, personals, a sports section and
ads from local merchants.
Publisher:
Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Date:
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 11, 1942)-Vol. 6, no. 7 (Oct. 19, 1945)
2005-12-08
Type:
text
Format:
Newspaper ; typescript (mimeo)
image/jpeg
Identifier:
548_kt638nc9ww
scjarmanzfrpr
Source:
Occidental College Library
Language:
eng; ja
Relation:
Special Collections. Japanese American Relocation (scjar)
Rights:
Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact
Special Collections.
Manzanar Free Press