Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor of Idaho spoke too soon. He had said that he would not let a free Japanese laborer come into the State. Last week, because coast Nisei would not come-or could not come-to Idaho, Governor Chase A. Clark and 450 Capitol and Highway Bureau employes were out in the fields themselves, thinning and weeding sugar beets, trying to save the $10,000,000 crop...
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...following letter is from a Nisei, who was evacuated from Los Angeles, and is now at the Owens Valley Reception Center, Manzanar, Calif. for Nisei and Japanese aliens...
...condition of this camp is just about the best that we can expect under the circumstances. The Army ration we are given daily is better than we ever expected (they say that it costs 48? a day per person). And the Japanese Nisei boys are saying that they should not forget the fact that they are. Americans, even if some fellow Americans may think that they should be treated as political prisoners. The Federal officials who are administering this camp are very courteous and considerate toward all of us. We do not have a jail here yet, and the administration...
Washington had better luck than California. Sixteen colleges and universities (among them Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Iowa State, Oberlin) agreed to give haven to Washington's Nisei. Of the 32 queried by Dr. Sproul, 14 replied they were "interested" (the rest said No or were noncommittal). And when Dr. Sproul announced the names of the 14, the outcry from their States was so fierce that three (Idaho, Kansas, Arkansas A. & M.) quickly changed their minds...