Preliminary Inventory to the Grace Nichols Pearson papers

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Hoover Institution Library and Archives

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Stanford University

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Title: Grace Nichols Pearson papers

Date (inclusive): 1941-1973

Collection Number: 46003

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes, memorabilia (1.0 linear_foot)

Abstract: Correspondence, pamphlets, reports, newspaper articles, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to the evacuation and resettlement of Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II.

Creator: Pearson, Grace Nichols

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1946.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Grace Nichols Pearson Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States

American Friends Service Committee

box 1, folder 1

General correspondence, 1941-1945. Letters regarding loyalties of Japanese Americans, relocation of Japanese students, and letters from Japanese Americans in the relocation camps in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and California

box 1, folder 2

List of correspondents

box 1, folder 3

Correspondence, reports, and general information to Miss Nichols from Professor Robert Emerson regarding Guayule Rubber Project at Camp Manzanar, California (for meeting rubber emergency in World War II), 1942. Original paper on guayule rubber production in relocation centers, by Grace Nichols

box 1, folder 4

Correspondence between Miss Nichols and Dean Maddox regarding the loyalty of Japanese Americans and Quakers, 1942

box 1, folder 5

Correspondence between Miss Nichols and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam regarding Nazi domination, conscientious objectors, and Japanese relocation, 1942

box 1, folder 6

Correspondence from Miss Nichols and others to Attorney Frank J. Hennessy in regard to the transfer of Japanese American R. Yokoyama, 1942

box 1, folder 7

Correspondence, questionnaire, and memoranda regarding the religious connections of Wilfred D. Pearson, 1942

Pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, and bulletins regarding Japanese American evacuation and re-settlement

box 1, folder 8

Description of camps at Tanforan, Poston, Topaz, and Tule Lake

box 1, folder 8

Educational programs at several location camps

Reports

box 1, folder 8

"The History of California's Japanese Problem and the Part Played by the Native Sons of the Golden West," by Peter T. Conmy, Grand Historian of the N.S.G.W.

box 1, folder 8

"Evacuation of Alien Enemies from West Coast Areas," by Common Council for American Unity

box 1, folder 8

"California and Her Less Favored Minorities," by Ruth E. McKee, WRA historian

box 2, folder 1

Greeting cards, religious church bulletins, and several photographs sent to Miss Nichols by various Japanese Americans in the centers