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Correspondence, 1944-1945
Physical Description: 11 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
Letters written from Emery Fast to his wife, Ethel “Billie”
Fast, as she worked in Washington, D.C. and he traveled throughout Utah and California.
One letter is not written by Emery Fast (95.132.1) and it was written by his father,
August, to Ethel. Throughout these letters Emery Fast describes his work with the WRA
and the people he meets through interviewing Japanese Americans for resettlement as they leave the concentration camps.
Box 1 Folder 1
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Box 1 Folder 11
Box 1 Folder 12
Physical Description: 6 items
One memorandum entitled “The White House Washington”
signed by President Roosevelt (95.132.104), one address and telephone directory of Washington staff (95.132.105), two booklets
(WRA Government Requests for
Transportation) that belonged to Emery Fast (95.132.106-.107), one letter to the Nation Magazine written by M.M. Tozier (95.132.108),
and one biographical sketch of Dillon S. Myer (95.132.109). Includes items numbered 95.132.104-.109.
Box 1 Folder 13
Physical Description: 1 item
One 36 page study in the background of the evacuation of
the persons of Japanese Ancestry from the Pacific Coast prepared by Ruth E. McKee,
WRA historian. Report is titled “California and her less favored minorities”. Includes item numbered 95.132.110.
Box 1 Folder 14
Physical Description: 1 item
Two copies of a typewritten transcription (13 pages) of Ben
Kuroki's speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California on February 4, 1944. His speech is about enlisting,
assignment into a liberator group, intolerance and discrimination in the service. Includes items numbered 95.132.111A copy
1 and copy 2.