| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II. By Allan W. Austin. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. xiv, 237 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-252-02933-X.)
The National Japanese American Relocation Council was created in the spring of 1942 at the urging of War Relocation Authority director Milton Eisenhower. This largely Quaker volunteer agency, privately organized and financed, helped more than four thousand Japanese American students incarcerated in internment camps obtain releases to pursue their college education at more than six hundred schools during World War II. Professor Allan W. Austin's well-researched and clearly written book takes the reader "from concentration camp to campus" by weaving together two narrative threads: the creation and operation of the council, and the experiences of the students the council helped place.	1
Using primary documents found in archives both major and minor, the book offers an extraordinarily detailed look at how the council was formed, the internal battles fought by its members, the relationship of the council to both government officials and college administrators, and the process the council employed to select—and often find funding for—Japanese American students.	. . .

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