Outcasts! The Story of America’s Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority

New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1944. Illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McLelland and Tom Parker. Near Fine.. A booklet published by the Quaker anti-war group Fellowship of Reconciliation concerning the evacuation and resettlement of west-coast Japanese Americans. The booklet was written from federal prison by conscientious objector Caleb Foote, who would later become a leading scholar of criminal justice reform; with a foreword by prominent anti-internment activist Galen Fisher. Fisher describes its contents:

“[I]t strikes a body blow to keep the Constitution valid for all, and takes square issue with those who would expurgate it for persons of Japanese descent. It is not an appeal for sympathy for the evacuees, but an argument for justice, and that is what the evacuees themselves want. Facts are arrayed about the whole gamut of evacuation and resettlement, but the emphasis on the deeper issues affecting our American democracy is at the core of the booklet.”

The booklet is illustrated with photographs of Japanese internment taken by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McClelland, and Tom Parker. Lange, Albers, Stewart, and Parker worked for the War Relocation Authority; and McLelland worked at the Granada camp in Colorado, where his wife was a teacher. Lange is best known for her Depression-era photos; much of her documentation of the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans was impounded by the US government until after the war.

Though fairly common institutionally, no other copies are offered for sale at the time of listing.