Japanese Internment Papers
From the desk of Judy Pitchford The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a civilian agency in charge of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The WRA staff documented the internment with reports by community analysts assigned to the relocation centers. These reports analyze the Japanese culture within the camps, reactions of the Japanese Americans to being incarcerated and interviews with “evacuees”. The Washington State Library Federal Collection contains three sets of WRA reports, which we have also…