Letter from Homer L. Morris to Caleb Foote

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Homer L. Morris to Caleb Foote
Description:
On closure of the relocation centers at the end of the year and possible influence of the AFSC. Morris has just returned from a visit to Indian reservations in Oklahoma, witnessing "the effect which the government Indian reservation policy has had on Indian life in pauperizing the Indians and fostering in them the 'gimme' attitude towards not only the government, but the whole of society..." Industrial layoffs have already begun and will increase when the war in the Pacific ends, making readjustment harder: "I see no painless way out of the dilemma in which the WRA [War Relocation Authority] is placed..."
Creator:
Morris, Homer L.
Addressee:
Foote, Caleb, 1917-2006
Date:
June 4, 1945
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Caleb Foote Papers
Subjects:
Japanese Americans--Civil rights
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945
American Friends Service Committee
Extent:
2 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums1013-s01-b01-f001-i003
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums1013-s01-b01-f001-i003