"Americans are Known as Great Relocators" Essay

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: "Americans are Known as Great Relocators" Essay
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1943-08-12
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: documents (object genre)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Essay written by Jerome internment camp high-school student Akiko Shiotani.
Civil Rights -- Japanese-Americans -- Relocation -- Internment -- Denson -- Drew
[Akiko Shiotani] for different cities in the middle western states. They are pioneers ----pioneers in that these people are paving the ground for those who are contemplating leaving the center in the immediate future. Since many of the caucasians have never seen Jap- anese people, they mus establish a good reputation so that it will enable others to relocate. It will be doubly inconvenient on them to follow the mores and morals of the communities. Relocation will scatter the Japanese Americans throughout the breath of the middle western states. Consequently, the Japanese Americans will not be congregated in "Little Japyos". Hence, the dissemination of the Japanese Americans will enhance the process of assimilation. Perhaps this will enable us to become an integral part of the American commonwealth. We must admit that America is a great melting pot, but it has mede it hard for certain metals to melt. Just recently, associate justice Murphy in his opinion in the Herabayashi case made a statement to this effect, "to say that any group cannot be assimilated is to admit that the great American experiment has failed, that our way of life has failed when confronted with the normal attachment of certain groups to the lands of their forefathers." Such a statement uttered by one of the judges sitting in the highest court has given us added confidence in that we Japanese Americans have a part to play in the destiny of our country. Of course, the circumstances that we find ourselves in are unusual. We must have foresight. It will either make us or brake us. We must have courage, determination, hope, and vision. Perhaps, at the endwe may say that it was an experience that we had never had before.
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