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UA Archival Collections

The "Tucsonians" Oral History Project Collection, 1947-2002 (MS390)

The collection includes the oral histories of several of the Japanese-American resisters of conscience who served sentences at the Catalina Federal Honor Camp on Mt. Lemmon (renamed the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site in 1999) during WWII. The oral histories are available through the UA's Aviary platform. 

United States War Relocation Authority Papers, 1942-1946 (MS042)

The U.S. War Relocation Authority was responsible for the relocation, internment, and reintegration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. This collection includes publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

University of Arizona Office of the President Records, 1937-1947 (AZ426)

Box 31, folders 11, 12 and 13 contain President Alfred Atkinson's correspondence, statements and publicity about proposed UA Extension courses in the internment camps. 

Books, Theses, Dissertations and Articles