Letter from Margaret Hayashi to Mr. Hayes
date: label: date made
content: April 27, 1942
notes: label: Description
content: This is a letter written by Margaret Hayashi to her son Harold's teacher, Mr. Hayes. The letter requests Harold's records because of their imminent move to Tanforan Assembly Center in the spring of 1942. They were later moved to the Topaz Relocation Center.
label: Description
content: Following the events of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 1, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which declared the west coast a military zone and that persons who posed a threat to national security could be excluded from this zone. These people were those of Japanese ancestry; they were forcibly relocated to the Assembly Centers and then prison camps for the duration of World War II.
label: Description
content: Harold Hayashi was in seventh grade at the time he was forced to move with his family to Tanforan Assembly Center. Margaret Hayashi notified Mr. Hayes that her family had received the evacuation order and that Harold would leave school that day to help her pack until they had to leave several days later. Margaret Hayashi also requested Harold's academic records so that Harold could attend school at the prison camp.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Berkeley
topic: label: Subject
content: World War II
label: Subject
content: Japanese Americans
label: related event
content: World War II
label: related event
content: Japanese American Internment
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Willard Middle School through Michael Williams, Archivist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0105.02
label: accession number
content: 2016.0105
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0105.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Letter
label: Object Name
content: letter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 5 in; 10.16 cm x 12.7 cm