DOI: 10.25549/cswa-c34-54
title: Genevieve Carter interview, 1987 Feb. 24

description: Carter, Genevieve by John Milner - Audio Oral History Interview - CSWA ❧ Interview by John Milner on February 24, 1987. An interview with Dr. Genevieve Carter as she recounts her experiences with the Manzanar program. ❧ CONTENTS: (0:47) Introduction by John Milner. CONTENTS: (1:23) Carter explaining what the Manzanar program was. (5:01) Finishing Doctorate's degree at Berkeley and working at the Institute of Child's Welfare. (9:12) Integration of psychiatry and social and the progression of social work. (18:02) Social organization of the Japanese. (22:48) Reports of rioting at the Manzanar camp and its results. (31:12) Medical programs within the camps. (37:50) Selecting a director of social within the camp. (44:53) Personal relationships that existed between Caucasian staff members and Japanese interns. (51:10) Carter's work with the children's program. (57:23) Rational of brining children that were only a quarter Japanese. (58:34) Starting a library in the camp. (1:06:32) The emotions and feelings of both staff and interments. (1:10:45) The war effort recruitment and political and economic forces influencing the removal of the Japanese ❧ Genevieve Carter (1907-1998). Social worker, researcher. Genevieve Carter Interview. Interviewed by John Milner. Date of interview: 2-24-87. 1 cassette tape. Length of interview: 1 hour and 30 minutes. Transcript of interview: 28 pp. CD containing interview and transcript. INTERVIEW TOPICS: Detention of Japanese; other taped interviews re Manzanar; reasons for involvement with Manzanar; other persons' involvement; maintenance of Japanese family unity; educational background; Manzanar camp philosophy; physical plant; food; camp social organization; riot; resolution of problems; medical and dental services; staff composition; general camp meetings; visit of "Happy" Chandler; relationship between Caucasian staff and the Japanese; outside community relations; children's programs; camp library; adult education, religion; recreation; emotions and feelings of staff and the Japanese; concluding remarks. ❧ ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: 1. California Social Work Hall of Distinction Biography ( https://socialworkhallofdistinction.usc.edu/honorees/ ). 2. Personal biographical newsletter (2 copies). 3. Announcements of memorial tribute to celebrate life of Genevieve Carter. 4. Brief biographical outline. 5. 2 photographs of Genevieve Carter: 1 6 x 4 in. of G. Carter with Monika White and Frances Lomas Feldman (4-8-94). 6. Photocopies of Japanese-American relocation announcements and of maps of internment camps. 7. "Ansel Adams' Manzanar," Los Angeles Times (7 August 1999), Part VI: 1, 8. 8. Genevieve Carter, "The Service Side of the FAP Bill: What Does our Research Tell Us?." Paper presented at the Conference on Issues in Social Welfare Policy Curriculum, Center for Continuing Education, Chicago, Illinois, 29-30 November 1970. 9. Interview with Genevieve Carter re Helen Dean monograph. 9-24/25-94. 10. Rough draft of Helen Dean monograph. 11. 1 cassette tape from "Sound Portraits": Memories of Manzanar: Dr. Genevieve W. Carter's Own Words. 12. 1 diskette of transcript of Hamovitch interview. 13. 1 diskette of transcript of Feldman/White/Carter interview. 14. 1 diskette of transcript of Milner interview. 15. Los Angeles Times editorial (7-10-98): "Keeping Manzanar's Message."