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| Mary Farquharson, from a re-election brochure in her Papers. Special Collections, UW Libraries, UW19576z |
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Mary Farquharson was an activist for liberal and Christian causes who served as a Washington State senator from 1935 to 1941. She was born in 1901 or 1902 and died in 1982. During World War II, Farquharson was deeply committed to working to aid Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated. She was instrumental in advancing the case of Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese American who refused internment, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Farquharson's papers are organized into several accessions. Accession no. 397-5 dates primarily from 1942 to 1945 and documents activities of Caucasian Americans who did not agree with the federal relocation policy (groups such as the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play). It includes several lengthy letters from Japanese American inmates, as well as clippings, ephemera, committee memoranda, newsletters, and miscellaneous writings of protest. It also contains subject series on two individuals, Gordon K. Hirabayashi and Mitsuo Paul Suzuki.
Researchers should note that a small amount of incarceration-related materials may also be found in some of the other Farquharson accessions. See especially Box 3 (the American Civil Liberties Union subgroup) of Accession numbers 397, 397-2, and 397-3.
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Some restrictions exist on duplication, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details.
This accession was given to the Libraries on June 6, 1989, by Chester Kingsbury.
| Box/Folder | Date | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fellowship of Reconciliation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1/9 | Incoming Letters | 1942-1943 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/10 | Outgoing Letters | 1943 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1/11 | Incoming Letters | 1943 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/12 | Outgoing Letters | 1943 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/13 | Memorandum | n.d. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1/14 | Subject Series -- Suzuki, Mitsuo Paul | 1943-1944 | |||||||||||||||||
