Abstract The Japanese American relocation collection (1941-1945) contain materials concerned with the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the Topaz Relocation Center, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Project. The collection contains correspondence, reports, statistics, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other related material. In 1942, after the Pearl Harbor Bombing, Americans of Japanese ancestry, living on the West Coast, were ordered to internment centers in...

Abstract Mike M. Masaoka served as National Secretary (1941-1943) and Washington lobbyist (1945-1953) for the Japanese American Citizens' League. He was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II and served as president of the Japan-America Society. He was active in issues of immigration reform and compensation for victims of wartime internment. The collection includes scrapbooks, yearbooks, correspondence, court and congressional documents, articles, oral history transcripts, and...