| | 1 | Author: | United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | United States Wartime Civil Control Administration records
1940-1942
(bulk 1942) ead | | | | Date(s): | 1940-1942 | | | | Abstract: | In 1942, to carry out Executive Order No. 9066, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt was designated military commander for the western half of the United States.
He created the Wartime Civil Control Administration; its mission was to evacuate and relocate people of Japanese ancestry. One portfolio of
miscellaneous reports, procedural manuals, memoranda, forms, orders, official announcements, and newspaper clippings concerning the evacuation and
relocation of Japanese Americans. Most items are from the San Francisco office of the Wartime Civil Control Administration; one report is addressed
specifically to Col. Bendetson. Most of the material is dated 1942, although a 1940 alien registration form is also enclosed. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Concentration camps -- United States. | Japanese -- United States. | Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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