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Title: Anne Loftis papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1976
Collection Number: 71032
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
8 manuscript boxes, 3 phonotape reels
(3.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, research notes, printed matter, and phonotape reels, relating to the evacuation and relocation of
Japanese-Americans, 1942-1945. Includes oral history interviews of immigrants to California.
Creator:
Loftis, Anne, 1922-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box FH12 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired.
[Identification of item], Anne Loftis papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1922 Feb. 8 | Born, New York, New York |
| 1944 | B. A., English, Smith College |
| 1969 | Author, The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II (with Audrie Girdner) |
| 1973 | Author, California: Where the Twain Did Meet |
| 1977 | Author, A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers (with Dick Meister) |
| 1980 | Author, John Steinbeck and Farm Labor Unionization: The Background of "In Dubious Battle" (with Jackson J. Benson) |
| 1998 | Author, Witnesses to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement |
The bulk of these papers are research materials compiled for the book Anne Loftis co-authored with Audrie Girdner in 1969,
The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, research notes, and phonotape reels. The papers document the evacuation
and relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, military service performed by Japanese Americans, and postwar efforts
for restitution and civil rights for Japanese Americans. Also included are oral history interviews about immigrants to California
and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
The Notes series consists primarily of brief excerpts used to write
The Great Betrayal. Occasionally chapter numbers are included in the folder title, but these numbers are sometimes misleading; chapter numbers
written on the excerpts are probably more accurate. The bulk of the material appears to relate to Chapter One, "Crisis"; Four,
"The Great Rejection"; and Five, "Evacuation". Abbreviations used by Loftis include JACL (Japanese American Citizens League),
WCCA (Wartime Civil Control Administration), and WRA (War Relocation Authority).
While the Notes series is chiefly brief excerpts, the Sources and Research Materials series contains documents in their entirety.
Included are clippings, government documents, notes of interviews of Japanese Americans and others who were involved in the
evacuation and relocation in some way, notes from the diary and letters of Helen Kitaji, and general background material collected
in the course of researching and writing
The Great Betrayal. In most instances in both this series and the Notes series, the original titles of folders have been retained.
The bulk of the Newspapers series contains selected issues of the
Pacific Citizen, the membership publication of the JACL, and a few issues of
Gidra, a news magazine of the Asian American Community published in Los Angeles, which contain material concerning the history
and activities of Japanese Americans. Also included are random issues of miscellaneous newspapers, including some in Spanish,
that do not appear to relate to
The Great Betrayal. The newspapers were typically retained in their entirety, but a few are annotated or have holes where articles were clipped.
The Phonotapes comprise five oral history interviews about the experience of immigrants in California and the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake and fire. Individuals interviewed are (1) Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Loehlin, observers of immigrants from India; (2) Mrs.
Walter Sharp and Mrs. Harris' mother, on the San Francisco earthquake; (3) Khatchik Minasian, cousin of William Saroyan, on
immigrants from Armenia; (4) Carlton A. Sheffield, a friend of John Steinbeck and an observer of a variety of immigrants and
Dust Bowl migrants in Marysville in the 1930s; and (5) Peter Jamero, son of immigrants from the Philippines. These interviews
and the Newspapers series may be related to Loftis' second book,
California: Where the Twain Did Meet, which concerns immigrant groups in the state.
Papers compiled by Anne Loftis for the book that she co-authored with Dick Meister,
A Long Time Coming, are housed at the Stanford University Archives (Collection Number M0306).
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives acquired the Anne Loftis Papers in 1971.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
California -- Emigration and immigration