Wednesday, October 14, 2015

"A JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNEE'S REJECTION LETTER FROM YALE"

"As a teenager, Kinji Imada was one of thousands of Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from the West Coast and relocated to an internment camp during World War II. When he graduated from high school at the Gila River War Relocation Center, he applied to colleges, including Yale. 

However, as this letter from the Board of Admissions states, while Kinji's application was "carefully considered," he was rejected because the university was "not permitted to accept students of Japanese parentage""
http://blog.angryasianman.com/2015/05/a-japanese-american-internees-rejection.html?m=1


The letter is super fascinating - the way the world was working then.

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