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Author Smith, Page.

Title Democracy on trial : the Japanese American evacuation and relocation in World War II / Page Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.53 SMITH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5315 SM63    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  940.5317 SMI    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  940.53 SM    Check Shelf
Description 476 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [450]-455) and index.
Contents The United States "opens" Japan -- Imperial Japan -- Japanese in America -- And what did they do? -- Yamato Damashii -- A divided people -- The aftermath of Pearl Harbor -- The decision nobody made -- Terminal Island and the Tolan Committee -- Voluntary evacuation -- Tachinoki (evacuate) -- Farm property -- The War Relocation Authority -- The assembly centers -- The National Japanese American Student Relocation Council -- The relocation centers -- Trouble in the centers -- Resettlement -- Registration -- Segregation -- Tule Lake -- The draft -- Social and cultural life -- Closing the relocation centers -- The return: shushoku -- Loose ends.
Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans -- Civil rights.
ISBN 0684803542
9780684803548
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