Box 1

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Materials were created and collected prior to World War II incarceraton of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman. Included are their birth certificates, a Japanese passport issued to Tei Nakamura, Hayao Sam's school group photo taken in Japan, a steerage check, bank statements and cancelled checks, a receipt for property taxes, Rosecrans Nursery financial documents and license, tax forms, and a notice of classification card.

Scope and Contents Materials are incarceration camp documents issued to and filed by Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman during their incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and Santa Fe Internment Camp. Included are instructions on disposition of motor vehicles issued by Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration along with a motor vehicle registration form filled by Hayao in the Santa Anita Assembly Center; correspondence and...

Scope and Contents Materials are documents, correspondence, memorandum, release notices, and application forms regarding Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman's repatriation as well as cancellation of repatriation and restoration of the U.S. citizenship. Included are correspondence between Hayao Sam Chuman and Thomas M. Cooley II, Jr., a letter from Chuman to Chief Justice Earl Warren, correspondence from Tule Lake Defense Committee, a pamphlet titled “Outline of Events Leading to Renunciation of Citizenship",...

Scope and Contents Contain materials issued to Hayao "Sam" Chuman after being released from incarceration. Included are a union card by the Meat and Cannery Workers Union, receipts, a motor vehicle registration certificate, hospital records, and a loan statement and payment record that were issued in the locations where the family had been settled, including Seabrook, New Jersey, Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Chicago, Illinois prior to returning to California. There are also materials issued in California since...

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Contains materials regarding redress and reparations. Included are the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 forms filled by Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, correspondence from the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, letters of apology, a letter from NCRR, a booklet titled “It had to be so,” blank forms for redress and workshop fliers, newspaper clippings, a note recording the mailing address for redress, and "The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Questions and Answers" booklet.

Scope and Contents Materials are excerpts collected from newspapers and other publications that were originally labeled as "Miscellaneous" by the donor. Included are: "Past History" which is a biography of Hatsuji Chuman written by Frank Fumio Chuma; "The Postwar Dreams of Soviet Airwomen: a Veteran of Many Combat Flights Writes to the Women of America about her Plans for the Future" by Yevdokia Rachevich; "An Appeal to California" by Pearl S. Buck; and “Problems of Supply dDominant in Far East: Geography Will...