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Relocation Center Newspapers Describe Japanese American Internment in World War II

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https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/winter/wra.html Relocation Center Newspapers Describe Japanese American Internment in World War II By Rebecca K. Sharp Eddie Sato drew political cartoons for the Minidoka Irrigator. This one depicts Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito. (Records of the War Relocation Authority, RG 210) While interned at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho, newspaper staff reporter Kimi Tambara wrote an open letter in the  Minidoka Irrigator  to her friend Jan. She recalled Christmas 1941, just weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. . . . another thought . . . coincident with the crackling noise of the firecrackers popping around Lower Chinatown, a low voice 'You damn Jap-you! By gosh, the government should put every damn one of you in concentration camps'—I remember the cold shiver that ran up my spine, transforming the humid, warm air of a July night into the bitter cold of winter. You and I, Jan, tried to laugh...
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Readings in the History of New York Part IB

--> STAMP ACT RIOTS The English government decided to pass a stamp act. It required the colonists to purchase a stamp to be put on every kind of legal or business document. It was a clever form of taxation. The Stamp Act raised a storm of indignation throughout the colonies, from Massachusetts to South Carolina. It was denounced as an oppressive, unrighteous, tyrannical measure. It was attacked with unsparing severity from the wayside tavern and the pulpit alike. Cadwallader Colden, a Scotchman by birth and a clergyman by profession, was at that time acting governor of New York. To guard against any resort to force on the part of the people when the stamps should arrive, he had Fort George, on the Battery, reinforced by a regiment from Crown Point. He had its magazines replenished, the ramparts strengthened, and its guns trained on the town. The people saw all this. They understood its import. It had the opposite effect from that which was inten...
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