1940's Government and Politics | 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...