![]() Additional correspondence and other archival objects will be digitized this year. The descriptive guide to her collection can be found here: Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers. There are over 700 images to date: Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers. These measures were implemented after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by President Franklin Roosevelt and led to the incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent in “camps” located in isolated parts of the U.S.Īt CSUDH, the Herzig Yoshinaga papers consist of 60 boxes of personal and professional materials including photographs that document Herzig Yoshinaga’s pre-war life and the time spent in WWII incarceration camps as well as correspondence related to civil rights activism and the Commission on Wartime Relocation. This proof was pivotal to the Supreme Court coram nobis petitions to vacate the wartime convictions of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and Minoru Yasui for violating military orders under Executive Order 9066. She is best known for uncovering the "smoking gun" evidence-an original draft (with editorial deletions suggested) of the government’s final report on the WWII incarceration, along with instructions to destroy the original documents-that led to the passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, resulting in redress and reparations for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Korematsu and Herzig Yoshinaga materials are reflective of the wealth of documentary evidence that can still be revealed,” said Greg Williams, Director, Gerth Archives & Special Collections at CSUDH.Īiko Herzig Yoshinaga's collection focuses on her family life and her work as an activist fighting for social justice. “The CSUJAD project was founded on the idea that materials boxed in archives should be accessible to students and scholars everywhere. The personal papers of Herzig Yoshinaga are located at the CSU Dominguez Hills Gerth Archives and Special Collections, the central hub for the CSUJAD project which now contains 46,000 digitized objects relating to Japanese Americans during the 20th century, from immigration through redress and beyond. The physical papers relating to Korematsu are located at the California Historical Society (CHS), one of the 29 partner institutions that have added digital assets to CSUJAD during the last few years. ![]() She was held at three different WRA camps during the War. Rather, the incarceration was caused by race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership. After the War, Herzig Yoshinaga found proof that the government had actively sought to cover up the fact that it knew that the “military necessity” rationale for the WWII incarceration was a lie. ![]() ![]() Korematsu refused to comply with the exclusion order and mass removal, went to jail, then challenged the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans through a number of court cases from the War Relocation Authority’s Topaz camp in Utah. The materials of Fred Korematsu (1919-2005) and Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga (1925-2018), two of the giants in terms of resistance to the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and activists in the later redress movement, are now accessible online. ![]() The California State University Japanese American Digitization (CSUJAD) project is pleased to announce the addition of two new, significant collections to the digital database at. Civil Liberties Icons Fred Korematsu and Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Archival Material Now Available in the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project by Jennifer Hill on T08:52:08-07:00 in Archives & Special Collections | 0 Comments ![]()
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