Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1992

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Creator:

Courage, Mary Burford, collector

Call Number:

WA MSS S-2651

Container / Volume:

Box 1

Image Count:

98

Abstract:

Publications and a small group of correspondence and photographs related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945, collected by Mary Burford Courage, a schoolteacher at the camp. Publications published by the United States War Relocation Au...

Description:

The United States declared war on Japan in 1941 following an attack by Japan on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Under authority granted by Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, the federal government incarcerated over 12...

Subject (Geographic):

Arizona., Arizona, United States., Poston., Poston, and Poston (Ariz.)

Subject (Name):

Courage, Mary Burford., Kitaji family., Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), and United States. War Relocation Authority.

Subject (Topic):

Concentration camps, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945, and Evacuation of civilians

Found in:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1992