United States War Relocation Authority

Overview

Works:	626 works in 929 publications in 1 language and 10,224 library holdings
Genres:	Documentary films Nonfiction films Newspapers Exhibition catalogs Pictorial works History Periodicals
Roles:	Composer, prn
Classifications:	D769.8.A6, 940.547273

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Most widely held works about United States

Uprooted Americans : the Japanese Americans and the War Relocation Authority during World War II by Dillon S Myer( Book )
Japanese-American evacuation and resettlement : during World War II by Dorothy Swaine Thomas( Book )
Executive order 9066; the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans by Maisie Conrat( Book )
Citizen internees : a second look at race and citizenship in Japanese American internment camps by Linda L Ivey( Book )
WRA : a story of human conservation by United States( Book )

Administrative highlights of the WRA program by United States( Book )
Tule Lake : from relocation to segregation by Harold S Jacoby( Book )
Prejudice, war, and the Constitution by Jacobus TenBroek( Book )
Preliminary inventory of the records of the War Relocation Authority : (Record group 210) by Estelle Rebec( Book )
39 months at Tule Lake by Margaret Lowery( Book )
Intelligence, internment & relocation : Roosevelt's Executive order 9066 : how top secret "MAGIC" intelligence led to evacuation by Keith Robar( Book )
Personal justice denied : report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians by United States( Book )
Dispossessed by American Friends Service Committee( Book )
Report and minority views of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on Japanese war relocation centers : report by United States( Book )
An autobiography of Dillon S. Myer by Dillon S Myer( )
Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946 : field basic documentation located at the National Archives, Washington, D.C by United States( Book )
Issei, Nisei, Kibei : Fortune Magazine reviews the program of the War Relocation Authority and the problems created by the evacuation from the West Coast of 110,000 people of Japanese descent( Book )
Statistics and statistical materials in the records of the War Relocation Authority by James A Paulauskas( Book )
An educational drama; the educational program provided the Japanese-Americans during the relocation period, 1942-1945 by William Dean Zeller( Book )
Dispersal of the Japanese Americans : rhetorical strategies of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1945 by Michael John Wallinger( )

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Most widely held works by United States

Impounded people : Japanese-Americans in the relocation centers by United States( Book )

8 editions published between 1946 and 2016 in English and held by 868 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Written in 1946 as one of the final reports of ... the War Relocation Authority."

Legal and constitutional phases of the WRA program by United States( Book )

10 editions published between 1946 and 2011 in English and held by 456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A description of the organization and functioning of the Solicitor's Office of WRA, the major legal and constitutional issues involved in the program, and the specific problems of law faced in connection with the management of relocation centers

Wartime exile : the exclusion of the Japanese Americans from the West coast by United States( Book )

12 editions published between 1946 and 1975 in English and held by 365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The WRA historian's account of the people who were evacuated and of the factors which determined their wartime exclusion from their homes on the Pacific Coast. Beginning with a brief chapter on two early-17th century voyages from Japan to the New World and scattered arrivals of Japanese castaways during the 19th century, this report continues with a detailed treatment of the mass migrations of Japanese immigrants from 1884-1908 -- when immigration was curtailed -- factors determining the distribution of the Japanese immigrants along the West Coast, the rise of anti-Japanese sentiment in the region, the facts of the Japanese birth rate, dual citizenship, language schools and other habitually misunderstood and misrepresented issues, a description of the social, economic and cultural life of the immigrants and their children, and finally the events and pressures which culminated in the Executive Order which empowered the Commanding General of the area to evacuate the entire minority

Community government in war relocation centers by United States( Book )

9 editions published between 1946 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An account of the theory and the practice of evacuee government at the centers; its gradual development within the framework of WRA administrative and legal limitations; its shortcomings, its accomplishments, its long-range significance

Token shipment, the story of America's war refugee shelter by United States( Book )

13 editions published between 1946 and 2019 in English and held by 284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Impounded people : Japanese-Americans in the relocation centers by United States( Book )

3 editions published between 1946 and 2012 in English and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The psychological and social effects of the evacuation and its consequences. Beginning with an account of the impact of evacuation the various segments of the Japanese American population, carries through from evacuation to re-establishment in West Coast communities after the lifting of the exclusion orders. The anxiety and unrest of the early period of adjustment in the relocation centers, the turmoil of being sorted in the registration and segregation programs, the settling down in the relocation centers after segregation, and the reluctant movement out of the centers when exclusion orders were lifted are described from the point of view of the evacuees who went through these experiences. Brings into focus the damaging effects of salvaging a people who have been subjected to life in artificial communities such as relocation centers

The evacuated people : a quantitative description by United States( Book )

1 edition published in 1946 in English and held by 218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selective statistics for the 120,000 persons of Japanese descent who came under WRA jurisdiction. Presents detailed characteristics of the total group, changing composition of the center populations, resettlement, vital statistics, and pertinent characteristics of special groups developing within the program. Also includes basic data for refugees at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter

The relocation program by United States( Book )

2 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Deals with the movement of people from their homes in California, Washington, and Oregon, to assembly and relocation centers, and at greater length with their eventual movement from the centers back to the normal stream of American Life. Traces the development of relocation policy and procedure, delving into agency thinking at various stages and describing the techniques and approaches adopted to achieve the purpose of this program. Describes the workings of the program in the centers and in the field offices, making significant comparisons in problems encountered, techniques employed, and achievements realized

The wartime handling of evacuee property by United States( Book )

2 editions published in 1946 in English and held by 212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A full, technical and documented account of the government's handling of evacuee property, from the earliest policies of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Farm Security Administration through development of WRA policy, its physical accomplishments, and the current status of the problem

The relocation program by United States( Book )

13 editions published between 1943 and 1975 in English and held by 156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Deals with the movement of people from their homes in California, Washington, and Oregon, to assembly and relocation centers, and at greater length with their eventual movement from the centers back to the normal stream of American Life. Traces the development of relocation policy and procedure, delving into agency thinking at various stages and describing the techniques and approaches adopted to achieve the purpose of this program. Describes the workings of the program in the centers and in the field offices, making significant comparisons in problems encountered, techniques employed, and achievements realized

Nisei in uniform by United States( Book )

2 editions published in 1944 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Administrative highlights of the WRA program by United States( Book )

6 editions published between 1946 and 1975 in English and held by 107 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Tulean dispatch( )

in English and held by 105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relocation of Japanese-Americans by United States( Book )

2 editions published in 1943 in English and held by 104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Executive order 9066 : the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans by Maisie Conrat( Book )

2 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The wartime handling of evacuee property by United States( Book )

6 editions published between 1946 and 1975 in English and held by 89 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

WRA : a story of human conservation by United States( Book )

7 editions published between 1946 and 1975 in English and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Document # 00187 from the Internment Archives. A history of the evacuation from the perspective of the War Relocation Authority, discussing the practical aspects of the WRA effort, including efforts to help the evacuees

The evacuated people : a quantitative description by United States( Book )

8 editions published between 1946 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 84 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Myths and facts about the Japanese Americans : answering common misconceptions regarding Americans of Japanese ancestry by United States( Book )

3 editions published in 1945 in English and held by 79 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A challenge to democracy( Visual )

6 editions published between 1943 and 1991 in English and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Explains the evacuation in 1942 of the Japanese-Americans from their homes to relocation centers, describing the self-government, educational opportunities, and activities in these centers

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