Register of the Anne Loftis papers
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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
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Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Anne Loftis papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
| 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
|
Scope and Content Note
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
NOTES
1941-1968
Scope and Contents
Clippings, excerpts, notes, arranged by subject in rough chronological order of events portrayed in
The Great Betrayal.
box 1, folder 2
After Pearl Harbor experiences
box 1, folder 4
Extreme proposals against Japanese explanation
box 1, folder 6
Attitudes toward evacuation
box 1, folder 7
Statements by outsiders (pro)
box 1, folder 10
Native Sons citizenship proposal
box 1, folder 14
Friends of Japanese Americans
box 1, folder 21
Alien Land Law and escheat cases
box 1, folder 24
Senate Committee on Military Affairs recommendation
box 1, folder 25
Prohibited zones/Restricted zones
box 1, folder 27
Goleta submarine and Los Angeles nervous
box 1, folder 30
WCCA /WRA
Mar. 14, 1942 Mar. 18
box 2, folder 6
How it seemed after they left
box 2, folder 7
Farm operation transfers and other evacuation procedure
box 2, folder 9
May 8 - San Jose liquor licenses
box 2, folder 11
Leaving homes/Later losses
box 2, folder 12
Chapter 5 Orders and movement
box 2, folder 17
News and news from outside
box 2, folder 25
Settling down (WRA words)
box 2, folder 28
Relationship with outside
box 2, folder 38
Censorship - other than news
box 2, folder 39
Japanese culture allowed in camps
box 2, folder 40
The Great Rejection/1942 FDR order and results
box 3, folder 4
Attempt to open up service
box 3, folder 7
Japanese language and intelligence
1942
box 3, folder 8
Nisei in service (military)
box 3, folder 10
Mrs. Roosevelt - Gila
May 1943
box 3, folder 21
Segregation after registration
box 3, folder 28
Tule Lake after segregation/riot
box 3, folder 30
Beautification and improvement/vegetable gardens
box 4, folder 1
More permanent leaves on
1942
box 4, folder 8
Immigration and naturalization
box 4, folder 12
Japanese American leaders
box 4, folder 13
Economics of discrimination/Social follows
box 4, folder 17
Discrimination today/late
1960s
SOURCES AND RESEARCH MATERIALS
1941-1978
Scope and Contents
Clippings, correspondence, government documents, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, transcripts of speeches, arranged alphabetically
by subject.
box 5, folder 6
Camps under Internal Security Act of - since repealed
1950
box 5, folder 7
Educational aspect of the Japanese evacuation problem
box 5, folder 8
Evacuation from Terminal Island
box 5, folder 9
FDR Correspondence on evacuation
box 5, folder 11
Japanese American renunciant cases
box 5, folder 15
Life in relocation centers
box 5, folder 16
Nisei in the armed service and official communiqués
box 6, folder 3
Problems at time of evacuation
1942
box 6, folder 5
Renunciation of citizenship, repatriates, restitution
box 6, folder 6
Sentiment about Japanese returning to California from camps
box 6, folder 8
Tule Lake Center where supposedly pro-Japan evacuees were segregated
NEWSPAPERS
1961-1976
Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically by title.
PHONOTAPES
1970
Physical Description: 3.0 tapes
Scope and Contents note
Sound recordings of five oral history interviews conducted by Anne Loftis.
onsite digital
Sound recording of Dr. C. H. Lochlin and Mrs. C. H. Lochlin
1970 June 24
General note
The Lochlins live at 1732 Buchanen St., East Marysville, California. Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part
1, number 1
onsite digital
Sound recording of Mrs. Walter Sharp and Mrs. Harris' mother
undated
Scope and Contents note
They talk about the San Francisco earthquake. Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part 1, number 2 and part
2, number 1
onsite digital
Sound recording of Khatchik Minasian
1970 May 5
General note
Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part 2, number 2
onsite digital
Sound recording of Carlton A. Sheffield
1970 June 7
General note
Tapes 1-2. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part 2, number 3 and part 3
onsite digital
Sound recording of Peter Jamero
1970 May 18
General note
Tapes 2-3. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 parts 4-6
box FH12
Material not yet described
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