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Booklet on history of displacement and incarceration of Japanese

Date: May 1943

Summary by D. S. Myer of considerations for resettlement; Sections; Realignment of Responsibility for Financial Assistance, General Considerations, Determination of Eligibility and Amount of Grants, Approval or Disapproval of Applications, Payment of Grants, Assistance to Dependent Families, Services from Local Public Agencies

Date: May 30, 1945

Correspondence from Robert W. Kenny (by H. H. Linney) to Oran W. Palmer regarding taxation of Japanese families during incarceration

Date: April 12, 1943

Correspondence from Beulah L. Lewis to Charles M. Wollenberg regarding housing shortage in Los Angeles County Resettlement Program and Winona and Lomita Housing Project; Attachments: Correspondence on Winona Housing Project (F3729_11_018g) and Correspondence on Housing Shortage (F3729_11_018h)

Date: May 28, 1946

"The program of the War Relocation Authority for the relocation of more than 100,000 Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese ancestry now being evacuated from Pacific Coast military areas"; Sections: Chronology, Evacuation-A Military Necessity, The Relocation Program, The War Relocation Work Corps

Date: July 9, 1942-Received

A Transcript of Appeal is the official written record of a trial, used by a higher court to review the lower court's proceedings. Ellen Van Valkenburg began an important legal battle for women’s enfranchisement in California on July 21, 1871, when she requested that Santa Cruz County Clerk Albert Brown enter her name in the Great Register of voters. After Brown (a willing accomplice in helping her bring the case to court) refused to register her, Van Valkenburg and her lawyer, Santa Cruz Judge Albert Hagan, began legal proceedings by requesting a writ of mandamus, a judicial remedy used to compel agencies to perform ministerial acts, such as registering voters. Van Valkenburg and Hagan argued her case by citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The new amendment, ratified 3 years earlier in 1868, defined all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. as citizens protected by civil rights. Van Valkenburg and Hagan asserted that American women were considered citizens under this amendment, and that citizenship automatically granted absolute rights, including the right to vote. The case first went to California’s Third District Court. Many of America’s most prominent suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, were with Van Valkenburg in Santa Cruz when the lower court ruled against her on August 16, 1871. Van Valkenburg and Hagan swiftly appealed this decision through the Supreme Court of California. In the end, the Supreme Court of California upheld the lower court’s verdict under the reasoning that as a white American woman, Van Valkenburg already had citizenship and civil rights prior to the passage of the 14th amendment, and that the 14th amendment did not provide her with any additional political rights, such as the right to vote. While Van Valkenburg lost her case, and subsequent lawsuits failed to secure women's suffrage nationwide, the case stands as a critical early example of legal advocacy for women's political rights in California.

Date: September 23, 1871