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  • Tags: Minority Groups
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) - The War Relocation authority said Tuesday individual exclusions of persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast will be continued under control of military authorities."The WRA's staff on the west coast will continue to carry…

Date: 1944-12-19
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 8
Type: NEWS

Cpl. Jack E. Kirby of Freedom, captured by the Japs at the fall of Corregidor in May, 1942, and prisoner in various prison camps in the Philippines until Sept. 3, 1945, writes the following to the Register-Pajaronian:"Since my return from the prison…

Date: 1945-10-11
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 6
Type: NEWS

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A portrait of Dan Rodgers. In 1861, he and his sons-in-law Robert Johnson and John Derrick began a 20 year struggle to break the color line in Watsonville Schools.

Date: Undated
Type: PHOTO

Protests Going To President, Sec. StimsonPajaro Valley and Watsonville Defense council, in special session Tuesday night, adopted a resolution protesting the War Relocation authority's proposed program of releasing Japanese evacuees from relocation…

Date: 1943-02-24
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

Washington (UP) - The attitude of Lt.-Gen. John L. DeWitt that "a Jap's a Jap," has upset for the present an administration plan to return to useful work on the Pacific coast a majority of the 110,000 Japanese evacuees in relocation camps, it was…

Date: 1943-04-16
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 1
Type: NEWS

To the Editor: Your insipid and practically anti-democratic editorial in Tuesday evenings paper (regarding return of Japanese) is a sickening display of shoddy thinking to the mind of at least one soldier who has now served his country for over three…

Date: 1944-12-22
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page -
Type: NEWS

(From Salinas, California, written by Berniece Batterton)The problem of re-classifying interned Japanese -- who are under 38 years of age, investigated by military intelligence, and certified to the draft boards as eligible for induction is one which…

Date: 1944-04-08
Source: Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , page 2
Type: NEWS

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Elvis Frapwell sitting on Indian mortar stone.

Date: 1927
Source: Scotts Valley Historical Society
Type: PHOTO

Young children in alien Italian families facing removal from the federal-designated restricted area in Santa Cruz are frightened, adults are bewildered and worried, the fishing industry at the wharf will be hard hit and boys are holding up enlisting…

Date: 1942-02-03
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Evening Edition , page 8
Type: NEWS

A complete list of articles which enemy aliens must surrender to police or sheriff's authorities was revealed Monday following receipt of a communication Sunday night from Frank J. Hennessy, U.S. attorney for the northern district of California.The…

Date: 1942-01-05
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, Evening Edition , page 1
Type: NEWS

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