Fletcher Asks Churches to Work on Ghetto Problems

Campigning with Secy of State Kramer, whom he says is now his full-time campaign coordinator, AF tells churches that they need to mobilize their members, especially retirees, to work to help end street violence

Art Fletcher Making His Mark

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Ritsuko Terayama and Sumiko Furuta at window of ferry crossing Puget Sound, 1942

This image shows Ritsuko Terayama (left) and Sumiko Furuta (right) looking out the ferry window as the cross Puget Sound on their way to an incarceration camp. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 was issued at Bainbridge Island, ordering 227 residents of Japanese descent to leave with six days\u27 notice. They departed by ferry on March 30, 1942. The island had a total of 276 Japanese American residents at the time; those who were away from the island at the time due to study, military service, or other business were not permitted to return. After their forced removal from Bainbridge Island, they were sent to Puyallup, then to Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Sumiko\u27s brothers Arthur and Noboru served in the US Army during WWII, despite their families\u27 incarceration. Arthur served in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, an all-Japanese American unit. The 442nd became the most decorated unit in US military history for its size. On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan\u27s attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from designated military areas. In March 1942 Japanese Americans living on Bainbridge Island were the first in the country to be taken from their homes by the federal government because they were considered a threat to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on the Kitsap Peninsula. More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration, most at the isolated Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho, until 1945. Caption information source: Email exchange with Constance Williams, Sumiko Furuta\u27s daughter, April 2021https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/using_korematsu_images/1011/thumbnail.jp

Graffiti on Japanese American home, Seattle, 1945

On December 18, 1944, the United States government announced that Japanese Americans in incarceration camps could return to their homes after January 1, 1945. In Seattle, and elsewhere on the West Coast, this was a controversial issue. When the first returnees arrived in Seattle in January, some found a cold welcome and vandalized property. Groups like the Remember the Pearl Harbor League and the Japanese Exclusion League, both formed during the war, actively opposed Japanese Americans returning to the region. Other organizations, like the Seattle Civic Unity Committee, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Seattle Council of Churches worked to reduce racial tension and ensure resettlement. This image shows anti-Japanese graffiti on the home of Chiseko and Shigeo Nagaishi on the day they returned from incarceration at The Minidoka War Relocation Center to their home on Beacon Hill. Other graffiti, including the word “death” and a skull and crossbones, were painted on the steps to their front door. They told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter that they would have to find another home, unwelcome in their old neighborhood. Yet they persisted and resisted, and Chiseko stayed in the house until her passing in 2007.https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/using_korematsu_images/1009/thumbnail.jp

Art Fletcher Wins Foundation Award for Pasco Work

Article on AF receiving Freedom Foundation award for his work in depressed neighborhood in Pasco in which he was chosen over thousands of other nominees. �proving with words and deeds that the impossible dream can come true.

Fumiko Hayashida and her daughter, Bainbridge Island, March 30, 1942

In this image, Fumiko Hayashida (1911-2014), holds her sleeping 14-month-old daughter, Natalie, at an assembly point near the ferry dock on Bainbridge Island. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1 was issued at Bainbridge Island, ordering 227 residents of Japanese descent to leave with six days\u27 notice. They departed by ferry on March 30, 1942. Hayashida and her family were incarcerated for a year at Manzanar before being moved to the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho to be closer to relatives and friends. Manzanar and Minidoka were two of ten large camps operated by the War Relocation Authority in which Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII. In 2006, Hayashida testified in favor of a proposed memorial for Japanese American incarcerees on Bainbridge Island before a U.S. congressional committee. The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial was opened in 2011. On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan\u27s attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from designated military areas. In March 1942 Japanese Americans living on Bainbridge Island were the first in the country to be taken from their homes by the federal government because they were considered a threat to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on the Kitsap Peninsula. More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration, most at the isolated Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho, until 1945. Caption information source: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituary-fumiko-hayashida-103-the-face-of-wwii-internment Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photographhttps://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/using_korematsu_images/1005/thumbnail.jp

Empty Chair Attack�

AF sent a photographer to take a shot of Cherberg's empty desk, but the office door was locked; campaign chair Haydon saud it demonstarted the same point

Clip and Mail: Letter to Our Servicemen

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Barracks at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, 1942

In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army into temporary assembly centers while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named “Camp Harmony, was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds, and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma, and Alaska. This photo shows the barracks in which the incarcerees lived, and the muddy conditions in the camp.https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/using_korematsu_images/1006/thumbnail.jp

Vacant stores after exclusion of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942

The exclusion of Seattle\u27s Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they left the incarceration camps. This photo, taken in early June 1942, shows an area of Jackson Street in Seattle. Wooden planks cover the windows of Higo\u27s Ten Cent Store. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that about a fifth of the stores in the area were for rent. Many other Japanese businesses were taken over by people of other ethnic backgrounds. Caption by MOHAI staff.https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/using_korematsu_images/1007/thumbnail.jp