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Santa Anita Pacemaker, May 1, 1942 .
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about the publication.
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Assembly Center and Camp Publications
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In
The Relocation Program: A Guidebook for the Residents of
Relocation Centers, it is stated that "At all centers, the
WRA [War Relocation Authority] encourages the evacuee residents to
assume the fullest possible responsibility for publishing a
newspaper that meets the community needs..." Indeed, residents
of relocation centers produced numerous publications, describing and
documenting their experience.
In
an article published in the CLA Bulletin of the California
Library Association in 1946, College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy
wrote, "Each of the ten WRA centers published its own
newspaper, which we received regularly with a few gaps. The assembly
centers also published papers, some of which we have, the Santa
Anita Pacemaker being the most nearly complete."
The collection contains 22 publications
from seven relocation centers (Gila River, Tule Lake, Poston, Rohwer,
Jerome, Granada, and Manzanar) as well as the Santa Anita Assembly
Center. They include high school yearbooks, newsletters, magazines,
and others. Relocation center residents contributed personal essays,
poems, editorials, and short stories.
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