Box MS611.02
Container
Contains 119 Results:
RELOCATION AWAY FROM CAMP - 1942-1945, Script 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.61
Identifier: MS611.02.61
Scope and Contents
After the United States government forced the Japanese Americans into the ten detention camps, it then tried to move them out of the camps to anywhere except the West Coast where it was still declared a war zone and off limits for the people of Japanese ancestry. Beginning in November 1942, an individual “resettlement: policy was announced by the War Relocation Authority. The Relocation Office at Heart Mountain was established by the end of July 1943, with two counselors, one Issei and one...
Dates:
Script 1996-1997
WORK at HMRC., Script- 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.62
Identifier: MS611.02.62
Scope and Contents
As with any community, even this one enclosed with barbed wire, it took many people and talents to keep it functioning. Detained men and women took community jobs which included work in the mess halls, schools, stores, shops, hospital, police and fire departments, and on the farmland. They were paid $12, $16, and $19 per month from the Government for their work, the latter reserved for professional positions; so, to not receive more money than a foot soldier in the army. The camp newspaper...
Dates:
Script- 1996-1997
WYOMING REACTION to the HEART MOUNTAIN DETENTION CAMP., 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.63
Identifier: MS611.02.63
Scope and Contents
STATE: After the internment camp was established at Heart Mtn., the reaction from the state was mixed. The majority were unfavorable to the detainees, they subscribed to the adage that “A Jap Is A Jap;” failing to distinguish between the loyal Japanese American citizens and aliens living in the United States, and the Japanese with whom we were at war. Gov. Nels Smith and many others feared that the West Coast Japanese Americans detained in Wyoming would stay in Wyoming permanently and...
Dates:
1996-1997
CAMP CLOSING - 1945, Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.64
Identifier: MS611.02.64
Scope and Contents
(Also see Addendum 21). The banishment from the West Coast of persons of Japanese ancestry only took a few months. It then took years to help detainees establish new homes after being confined in the ten concentration camps. Resettlement plans helped some of the detainees establish new lives away from the West Coast and the camps; but when the West Coast was finally re-opened to detainees, effective Jan. 2, 1945, most of the internment camps had thousands of persons still confined. The...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
AFTER CAMP. , Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.65
Identifier: MS611.02.65
Scope and Contents
At camp’s closure, Heart Mtn. detainees, as with detainees from the other detention camps, restarted their lives in different areas. Many returned to their pre-war hometowns while a few permanently moved inland. Seven stories from detainees, including,: “Returning back home was the most stressful times of the whole war as we were NOT WELCOME back home. The majority of stores and businesses would not sell us anything and signs saying ‘NO JAPS’ were on the doors of many stores. We went to...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS. Impact of Heart Mountain on Wyoming., 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.66
Identifier: MS611.02.66
Scope and Contents
The concerns expressed by state officials when the announcement was made that Wyoming was going to get a detention camp for Japanese Americans never materialized. Japanese American internees did not stay in the state after the war, save for a few who married into Japanese American families already established in the state. No detainee collected welfare from the state of Wyoming, as Gov. Smith suggested may happen. Concern about the expense to be incurred by the state for the detainees also...
Dates:
1996-1997
REDRESS and REPARATIONS., 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.67
Identifier: MS611.02.67
Scope and Contents
The detainees at Heart Mountain had similar responses to Redress and Reparations as did the detainees from the other camps. Though individual responses varied, overall everyone felt that it came too late. The ones who needed it the most, the Issei, first generation Japanese Americans, were the ones who lost everything with the incarceration. Most of them were gone when the Government’s apology and reparation was finally given.
“I have mixed feelings (about Redress and Reparations). I was...
Dates:
1996-1997
SCRIPT: First Installment draft. , 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.68
Identifier: MS611.02.68
Scope and Contents
Sent to Mark Payler, Vision West Productions. Master Outline:
1. Japanese Immigration to the United States. 2. Japanese in the United States, Pre-WWII. 3. Pearl Harbor and Initial Response to and from Japanese American Community. 4. Executive Order 9066. 5. The Evacuation, Assembly Centers, and Ten Concentration Camps. 6. The Heart Mountain, Wyoming Camp. 7. Camp Closures; Leaving and Starting Over. 8. Redress and Reparations. 9. Conclusion: Study Questions, Issues...
Dates:
1996-1997
FINAL SCRIPT. CD ROM PROJECT., 1997-1998
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.69
Identifier: MS611.02.69
Scope and Contents
MASTER OUTLINE:
1. Japanese Immigration to the United States and the Japanese Experience in the United States, Pre-WWII.
2. Pearl Harbor and Initial Response to and from Japanese American Community.
3. Executive Order 9066.
4. The Evacuation, Assembly Centers, and Ten Concentration Camps. Subtopics: The Japanese Americans and the Military. The Draft Resistance Movement. The Loyalty Questionnaire. Executive order 9066 and the Supreme Court. Evacuation and the Camps Discussion...
Dates:
1997-1998
CD ROM Project – Critique Re: CD Script., April 1998
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.70
Identifier: MS611.02.70
Scope and Contents
Notes - Discussion questions - Pearl Harbor and initial response to and from Japanese American community (explanation) - The evacuation, assembly centers, and ten concentration camps - Evacuation and the camps timeline - The draft resistance movement - The Volunteer “Relocation” - Redress and Reparations.
Dates:
April 1998