American Decades
Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Letter
By: James Y. Sakamoto
Date: March 23, 1942
Source: Sakamoto, James Y."Letter from James Y. Sakamoto of the Emergency Defense Council Seattle Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League dated March 23, 1942. Emergency Defense Council of the Seattle Chapter, Japanese American Citizens League. March 23, 1942. Camp Harmony Exhibit. University of Washington. Available online at http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/fd... ; website home page http://www.lib.washington.edu (accessed March 19, 2003).
About the Author: James Y. Sakamoto (1903–1955) was an American by birth and a leader in the Seattle and national Japanese American community. He founded the first English-language newspaper for Japanese Americans, the Japanese...
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
