Commission on Wartime Relocation and Civilian Internment Heartings held July 14,1981, Senate Cacus Room 318
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content: Contact sheet of negatives by George Wakiji documenting the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings in Washington, D.C. Name stamp of George Wakiji on back. Photo label of those depicted affixed on reverse.
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content: The CWRIC was a bipartisan commission formed by President Jimmy Carter to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066) and the incarceration of American citizens, as well as the mistreatment of the Alaskan natives of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands. The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July 14th, 1981 and features the testimonies from members of Congress. Present that day were Senators Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), Spark Matsunaga (D-Hawaii), and Ted Stevens (D-Alaska) and Representatives Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Mervyn Dymally (D-CA), and Cecil Heftel (D-Hawaii). Also present were federal officials, Leland Barrows a high level official at the War Relocation Authority.
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content: The people in the highlighted cells are as follows:
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content: 14 Reps. Dymally, Akaka
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content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
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content: Congress
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content: World War II
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content: Japanese Americans
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content: Japanese American Internment
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content: World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
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content: Gift of Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2016.3020.24
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content: 2016.3020
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content: 2016.3020.24
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content: contact sheet
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content: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm