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Sumiko Kobayashi papers (additions)
Sumiko Kobayashi, a second-generation Japanese American, or Nisei, was one of over 120,000 thousand Japanese-Americans evacuated from their homes under the provisions of Executive Order 9066 in 1942. This order authorized the removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast to camps set up in places...
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| Collection: | Sumiko Kobayashi Papers (additions) |
| Collection Number: | MSS073A |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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4.2 Linear feet 4.2 linear feet, 11 boxes |
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Sumiko Kobayashi, a second-generation Japanese American, or Nisei, was one of over 120,000 thousand Japanese-Americans evacuated from their homes under the provisions of Executive Order 9066 in 1942. This order authorized the removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast to camps set up in places such as Topaz, Utah. The Kobayashi family was taken to the Tanforan Assembly Center and the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah in 1942. In 1943, Kobayashi left Topaz to begin her college work at Brothers College, Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey. She received help from the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council in applying and receiving aid for college. After graduating from college in 1946, Kobayashi became involved in a number of Japanese civic organizations that brought awareness to the conditions of the Japanese in America and sought redress for the hardships that the Japanese endured as a result of their time in the internment camps. She moved to Philadelphia in 1947 and currently resides in Medford, New Jersey.
This collection adds to the Sumiko Kobayashi Papers, MSS 073. It includes much information about the movement for redress in the Japanese-American community, as well as information on cultural and memorial sites dealing with Japanese-American history. There is also a fair amount of correspondence between Kobayashi and the various organizations to which she was affiliated from approximately 1985 to 2003, with the bulk of the correspondence occurring between 1988 and 2003. There are newsletters, pamphlets, and information that flowed between other organizations to which Kobayashi belonged in this same time period. This collection includes a number of newspaper clippings. Lastly, there are letters from grateful individuals who listened to Kobayashi tell her life story. |