MZFCollection0491.xml Guide to the Ray B. Haight Papers 1911-1967 Haight (Ray B.) Papers Kim Allen Scott, 2009 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 491, MtBC, us Haight, Ray B., 1886-1977 Ray B. Haight Papers 1911-1967 .4 linear feet and 1 reel audiotape The Ray B. Haight Papers consist mainly of information on the Japanese internment camps in the west during the war. Topics include: the camps, the treatment of Japanese-Americans, race issues, Japanese-Americans. There is also a tape recording of a 1967 speech Haight made before the Montana Institute for the Arts History group in Bozeman as well as his notes for various speeches. Photographs of several relocation centers in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, and California are also in the papers. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Ray B. Haight was born on June 23, 1886 in Buena Vista County, Iowa. He was the son of Frederich and Laura Cassiday Haight. In May of 1913, Ray married Verniece Chamberlain. They had five children: Cecil, Robert, Gertrude, Jean, and Lucile. During the 1920s, Haight ranched in Fergus County, Montana. In 1933, he moved to Bozeman where he served as the county agent for Beaverhead, Jefferson, and Madison counties. He was also the land use specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics at Montana State College. During World War II, Haight was a relocation officer with the War Relocation Authority, a program overseeing the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans in camps throughout the western United States. Haight served as WRA area director for Salt Lake City. After the war, he served with the Bureau of Reclamation in land use planning in Billings until he retired in 1953. Ray B. Haight died in May 1977 at the age of 90.

The Ray B. Haight papers consist mainly of information on the Japanese internment camps in the west during the war. Many of the papers are documents produced by the U.S. War Relocation Authority concerning the camps and the treatment of Japanese-Americans. Editorials and publications published during the war about race issues and Japanese-Americans are also included in the papers. The papers also contain a tape recording of a 1967 speech Haight made before the Montana Institute for the Arts History group in Bozeman as well as his notes for various speeches. Photographs of several relocation centers in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, and California are also in the papers.

This collection is open for research.

The Ray B. Haight papers were donated to Special Collections by his son, Robert Haight, on March 31, 1985.

This collection was processed 2009 February 6

 Granada Relocation Center Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) Montana Institute of the Arts United States-War Relocation Authority Concentration camps-West (U.S.)-Photographs Japanese Americans-Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 World War, 1939-1945-Evacuation of civilians-West (U.S.) Japanese Americans Military Montana Photographs Sound Recordings 1/1 Department of the Interior: General Land Office 1911-1916 1/2 Ray B. Haight, notes for various public addresses about Japanese Relocation 1/3 Ray B. Haight, notes for meeting of Montana Institute for the Arts History group about Japanese Relocation for March 1967 1/4 Montana Institute for the Arts History group March 17, 1967

Ray B. Haight, "Relocation of the Japanese in the Western Area During and After World War II"

 1/5 Maps of Relocation centers in the U.S. and Montana; Lists of Relocation Center leaders 1/6 U.S. War Relocation Authority: Field Supervisor reports 1945 1/7 U.S. War Relocation Authority: Reports and releases 1943-1946 1/8 U.S. War Relocation Authority: Addresses

Addresses by William Haines Smart, 1943; Dillon S. Myer, director, 1945

 1/9 U.S. War Relocation Authority: Constitutional principles involved in Relocation program 1/10 U.S. War Relocation Authority: Harold H. Townsend testimony 1942 1943 1/11 U.S. War Relocation Authority: Comments on statements by House Committee on Un-American Activities 1/12 U.S. War Relocation Authority: "Myths and Facts About the Japanese-Americans" 1945 1/13 Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans 1942-1944 1/14 Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans 1945-1946 1/15 Japanese American Citizens League: "They Work for Victory: The Story of Japanese Americans and the War Effort" 1/16 Pacific Citizen: issue about the Nisei December 22, 1945 1/17 "The Sunday Before": Sermons by Pacific Coast pastors of the Japanese race before evacuation 1/18 Survey Graphic May 1944

"Civilian Internment American Way" by Earl G. Harrison

 1/19 Japanese-Americans in the Pacific Northwest: Bibliography of materials at Tacoma Public Library August 1971 1/20 Photographs #1-8,

Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado

 #1 New arrivals eat their first meal #2 Getting settled in living space after arrival #3 Hospital technicians and a blood test patient #4 The cooperative store #5 The Co-op beauty shop #6 Three students of an adult craft class doing steamed crayon work #7 "Junior Prom" at Granada High School #8 Elementary school children in the grade school library 1/21 Photographs #9-15,

Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado

 #9 Playing basketball #10-11 View of the Granada Relocation Center #12 Vocational students and calves they are raising #13 Japanese-American detainee working on water color painting of his barracks #14 Japanese-Americans learning how to operate a power shovel #15 Two Nisei volunteers talking to Captain William S. Fairchild about enlistment 1/22 Photographs #16-21,

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming

 #16 Heart Mountain Relocation Center at night #17 Howard Hisayasu family in their barracks #18 Detainees ice skating #19 Relocation Center swing band #20 Advanced English class for adults #21 Detainees working on their camp newspaper 1/23 Photographs #22-26,

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming

 #22 Signing up to work in sugar beet fields #23-26 Japanese-Americans working in the relocation center 1/24 Photographs #27-30,

Relocation Centers, Arizona, Arkansas, California

 #27 Landscaping done by residents at Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona #28-29 Classes at Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas #30 Memorial Day services at Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California 1/25 Photographs #31-32,

Japanese, American workers

 #31 Japanese-Americans working sugar beet field near Milliken, Colorado #32 Japanese-American teaching Navy students Japanese at University of Colorado, Boulder Speech of Ray B. Haight 1967 1 reel audiotape