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Anne Reeploeg Fisher papers, 1940-1985
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Fisher, Anne Reeploeg
- Title
- Anne Reeploeg Fisher papers
- Dates
- 1940-1985 (inclusive)19401985
- Quantity
- approximately 3.88 linear feet
- Collection Number
- 1818
- Summary
- Papers of an author and civil rights activist.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Consult the access restrictions information for each of the accessions listed below.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
A civil libertarian and member of the democratic socialist party, Anne Fisher dedicated much of her life to publicizing the unfair treatment of Japanese Americans during and after their World War II incarceration.
In 1942 Fisher supported the case of Gordon Hirabayashi when he deliberately violated curfew and relocation orders imposed on Japanese Americans, arguing that they were based on race and therefore unconstitutional. After turning himself in, Hirabayashi appealed to the Supreme Court, but failed to win his case.
Fisher did not give up her interest in the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans after the war ended. For almost two decades after the war she conducted historical research, mostly from her Seattle area residence, to write a book about the incarceration. During this period she published part of her work in a bi-weekly newspaper called the Reporter. She also continued to advocate for Japanese Americans who did not receive just compensation for their treatment and for the possessions they lost during their incarceration. In the early 1950s Fisher also lobbied against the appointment of Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court because of his wartime role in the Japanese American incarceration.
After almost two decades of research and trying to find a publisher, Fisher’s book, Exile of a Race, was published in 1965. Exile of a Race argues strongly that there was never any evidence that Japanese Americans posed a threat and that all Americans should see the incarceration as evidence of the frailty of civil liberties in the U.S.
In the immediate postwar years Fisher also continued to advocate her leftist political beliefs and worked as a reporter for the Call a weekly socialist newspaper. For the paper she covered the 1945 United Nations charter conference..
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
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Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 2 accessions.
- Accession No. 1818-002, Anne Reeploeg Fisher papers, 1968
- Accession No. 1818-004, Anne Reeploeg Fisher papers, 1940-1985
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 1818-002: Anne Reeploeg Fisher papers, 1968Return to Top
Scope and Content: Anne Fisher's book "The Torrens System: How to Escape the Title Insurance Gouge". Also papers concerning her efforts to obtain a Uniform Torrens Law for land registration.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Donated by Anne Fishers, 11/1/1985.
Accession No. 1818-004: Anne Reeploeg Fisher papers, 1940-1985 (bulk 1940-1955)Return to Top
Scope and Content: Research files, ephemera, correspondence, interviews, newsletters, typescripts, galley proof, drawings, clippings, mostly relating to her book, "Exile of a Race; a history of the forcible removal and imprisonment by the Army of the 115,000 citizen and alien Japanese who were living on the West Coast in the spring of 1942." Also includes a transcript of Fisher's notes at the trial of Gordon Hirabayashi, 1942 and Fisher's notes and related material from the San Francisco United Nations Conference in 1945.
Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Acquisition Info: Received in 1971.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Series 1: Personal Papers |
1940-1985 | ||
Subseries 1: Incoming Letters |
1940-1985 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/1 | 1818-004 | Bones, Homer T. |
January 19, 1943 |
1/2 | 1818-004 | Coffee, John M. |
January 19, 1943 |
1/3 | 1818-004 | Hirabayashi (Gordon) Defense Committee |
April 16, 1943 |
1/4 | 1818-004 | Incoming Letters |
1940-1985 |
Subseries 2: Outgoing Letters |
1942-1985 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/5 | 1818-004 | Outgoing Letters |
1942-1985 |
Subseries 3: General Correspondence |
1951-1955 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/6 | 1818-004 |
The Reporter
|
1951-1952 |
1/7 | 1818-004 | Regarding Earl Warren |
1953-1955 |
Subseries 4: Notes |
1942 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/8 | 1818-004 | Notes on Hirabayashi Trial |
1942 |
Subseries 5: Research Files |
1936-1971 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
1/9 | 1818-004 | American-Made Refugees |
undated |
1/10 | 1818-004 | Anti-Japanese |
1943-1945 |
1/11 | 1818-004 | Associated Farmers |
1939-1945 |
1/12 | 1818-004 | Atrocities |
1943-1947 |
1/13 | 1818-004 | Back of Evacuation |
1942-1967 |
1/14 | 1818-004 | Background of Issei |
1936-1947 |
1/15 | 1818-004 | Background of War with Japan |
1941-1955 |
1/16 | 1818-004 | Canada |
1943-1954 |
1/17 | 1818-004 | Churches etc., Pro-Japanese |
1942-1944 |
1/18 | 1818-004 | Civil Rights for Japanese |
1939-1943 |
1/19 | 1818-004 | Collins, Wayne |
1954-1955 |
1/20 | 1818-004 | Dewitt - Final Report - S.L.A. Marshall |
1943-1947 |
1/21 | 1818-004 | Decrimination |
1942-1946 |
1/22 | 1818-004 | Draft Violators |
1943-1949 |
1/23 | 1818-004 | Escheat - Alien Laws; Fishing - Oyama - Atichitan
Theatre; Prop. 15; Naturalization |
1944-1952 |
1/24 | 1818-004 | Evacuation Losses and Claims Program |
1946-1962 |
1/25 | 1818-004 | Evacuees Works on Farms, etc. |
1943 |
1/26 | 1818-004 | Eviction and Assembly |
1942-1962 |
1/27 | 1818-004 | Go for Broke, Etc. |
1943-1964 |
1/28 | 1818-004 | Hearst, William Randolph |
1943-1959 |
1/29 | 1818-004 | Honor Roll and Fair-Weather Friends |
1943-1947 |
1/30 | 1818-004 | Indemnification |
1943-1959 |
1/31 | 1818-004 | Indemnification for False Arrest, Etc. |
1944-1950 |
1/32 | 1818-004 | Interviews with Japanese-American
Evacuees |
1946, undated |
1/33 | 1818-004 | Korematsu-Endo Cases |
1943-1953 |
1/34 | 1818-004 | Labor and Japanese |
1942-1947 |
1/35 | 1818-004 | Military Over Civilian Tests Cases: Hawaii and
Mainland |
1944-1959 |
1/36 | 1818-004 | No Sabotage: Hawaii and Mainland |
1944-1962 |
1/37 | 1818-004 | Oregon |
1943-1946 |
2/1 | 1818-004 | Pearl Harbor Investigations |
1940-1966 |
2/2 | 1818-004 | Peruvian Kidnapped Japanese |
1943-1971 |
2/3 | 1818-004 | Relocation |
1942-1944 |
2/4 | 1818-004 | Renunciation Suits, Etc. |
1945-1964 |
2/5 | 1818-004 | "Slap the Jap" Campaigns |
1943-1945 |
2/6 | 1818-004 | Summary |
1944-1964 |
2/7 | 1818-004 | Terror: California |
1944-1954 |
2/8 | 1818-004 | Test Cases |
1942-1949 |
2/9 | 1818-004 | Tule Lake |
1943-1959 |
2/10 | 1818-004 | U.S. War Relocation Authority (WRA) Camp
Closings |
1943-1947 |
2/11 | 1818-004 | U.S. War Relocation (WRA) Camps |
1942-1945 |
2/12 | 1818-004 | Warren, Earl |
1944-1970 |
2/13 | 1818-004 | War from Dec. 7, 1941 and Pre-Trade with
Japan |
1942-1957 |
Subseries 6: Speeches and Writings - Typescripts |
undated | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
2/14-3/3 | 1818-004 | Manuscript:
Exile of a Race
|
undated |
3/4-10 | 1818-004 | Manuscript:
Exile of a Race (unpublished) |
undated |
3/11 | 1818-004 | Manuscript:
Exile of a Race (fragments) |
undated |
3/12 | 1818-004 |
Exile of a Race (galley) |
undated |
3/13 | 1818-004 | Manuscript: "Behind Barbed Wire" |
undated |
Subseries 7: Newsletters |
1941-1945 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
3/14 | 1818-004 |
The Call
|
1942 |
3/15 | 1818-004 | Camp Harmony |
August 14, 1942 |
3/16 | 1818-004 |
The Conscientious Objector
|
1943-1945 |
3/17 | 1818-004 |
Fellowship of Reconciliation
|
1943-1944 |
3/18-19 | 1818-004 |
The Minidoka Irrigator
|
1942-1944 |
3/20 | 1818-004 |
The People's Lobby
|
1941-1945 |
4/1 | 1818-004 |
Politics
|
1944 |
Subseries 8: Clippings |
1943-1985 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
4/2 | 1818-004 |
The Minidoka Irrigator
|
1943-1944 |
4/3-4 | 1818-004 | Miscellaneous |
1943-1985 |
Subseries 9: Ephemera |
1942-1985 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
4/5 | 1818-004 | Drawings - Camp Harmony, by Eddie Sato |
1942 |
4/6 | 1818-004 | American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) |
1945-1952 |
4/7 | 1818-004 |
Exile of a Race
|
1966-1985 |
4/8 | 1818-004 | Japanese-American Citizens' League
(JACL) |
1946, undated |
4/9 | 1818-004 | Maynard C. Krueger |
1942 |
4/10 | 1818-004 | U.S. War Relocation Authority |
1946, undated |
4/11-12 | 1818-004 | Miscellaneous |
1942-1956 |
5/1-2 | 1818-004 | Scrapbook Items |
1942-1945 |
Series 2: United Nations |
1942-1945 | ||
Box/Folder | Accession | ||
5/3 | 1818-004 | General Correspondence |
1945 |
5/4 | 1818-004 | Notes |
1945 |
5/5 | 1818-004 | Clippings |
1945 |
5/6-7 | 1818-004 | Ephemera |
1942-1945 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
- Torrens system--Law and legislation
Personal Names
- Fisher, Anne Reeploeg.--Archives
- Fisher, Anne Reeploeg. Exile of a Race; a history of the forcible removal and imprisonment by the Army of the 115,000 citizen and alien Japanese who were living on the West Coast in the spring of 1942--Sources
Titles within the Collection
- Exile of a Race; a history of the forcible removal and imprisonment by the Army of the 115,000 citizen and alien Japanese who were living on the West Coast in the spring of 1942
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Bone, Homer Truett, 1883-1970 (creator)
- Coffee, John Main, 1897- (creator)
Corporate Names
- Gordon Hirabayashi Defense Committee (creator)
- United Nations (creator)