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{ "url_title": "Friends Hostel, Des Moines", "title_sort": "friendshosteldesmoines", "links": { "json": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Friends%20Hostel,%20Des%20Moines/?format=api", "html": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Friends%20Hostel,%20Des%20Moines?format=api" }, "modified": "2024-01-15T20:39:36", "title": "Friends Hostel, Des Moines", "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <p>\n <br/>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Hostels/\" title=\"Hostels\">\n Hostel\n </a>\n established for Japanese American\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Resettlement/\" title=\"Resettlement\">\n resettlers\n </a>\n in Des Moines, Iowa, by the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/American_Friends_Service_Committee/\" title=\"American Friends Service Committee\">\n American Friends Service Committee\n </a>\n (AFSC). As part of the AFSC's efforts to aid Japanese Americans who had been forced into concentration camps during World War II, they established hostels that provided temporary housing to Japanese Americans leaving the camps. Opened in September 1943, the Des Moines hostel was one of three opened by the AFSC in 1943. It closed in October 1945 after two years, having served around 750 resettlers.\n </p>\n <p>\n Though the AFSC first discussed hostels for Japanese Americans in early 1943, it had prior experience with hostels having operated two in the U.S. for European refugees beginning in the late 1930s. One of them was the Scattergood Hostel, located in West Branch, Iowa. When the flow of refugees from Europe slowed, the AFSC sought to transform Scattergood to house Japanese Americans, but was rebuffed by local resistance. After successfully launching smaller hostels in Chicago in February 1943 and Cincinnati in April, the AFSC returned to Iowa, launching a hostel in Des Moines that opened on September 1, 1943, at 2150 Grand Avenue. John Copithorne managed the hostel initially, followed by Ross and Libby Wilbur, a married couple with a young daughter, who were paid $100 a month to manage the hostel.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n A converted boarding house, the Des Moines hostel had ten rooms and could house up to 25. It was located in a residential neighborhood and had a large lawn. Guest without jobs paid $1 per day for room and board, while those who were employed paid $1.50 per day. An average of eighteen people per day stayed at the hostel in the first ten months, their stays lasting anywhere from a few days to a few months. The hostel hosted Sunday afternoon teas that were open to the surrounding community and served as open houses. As part of their duties, the Wilburs also helped resettlers find more permanent housing in the area. The hostel was funded by the AFSC and received additional support from the Des Moines Relocation Committee, a coalition of local churches and community members. After a little over two years, demand waned as more Japanese Americans began heading back to the West Coast, and the hostel closed on October 31, 1945, its mission having largely been accomplished. Bedding from the hostel was shipped to the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Evergreen_Hostel/\" title=\"Evergreen Hostel\">\n Evergreen Hostel\n </a>\n in Los Angeles, where demand remained high.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n Related Articles\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"General\">\n <h3>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"General\">\n General\n </span>\n </h3>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <ul>\n <li>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Hostels/\" title=\"Hostels\">\n Hostels\n </a>\n </li>\n <li>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Resettlement/\" title=\"Resettlement\">\n Resettlement\n </a>\n </li>\n </ul>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Austin, Allan W.\n <i>\n Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950\n </i>\n . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.\n </p>\n <p>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-17-51/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n \"Des Moines Hostel Closes as Relocation Job Ends.\"\n </a>\n <i>\n Pacific Citizen\n </i>\n , December 22, 1945, p. 22.\n </p>\n <p>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-17-47/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n \"Iowa Has Accorded Welcome to Displaced Coast Nisei.\"\n </a>\n <i>\n Pacific Citizen\n </i>\n , November 17, 1945, p. 5. Reprint of article from the\n <i>\n Des Moines Register\n </i>\n , November 8, 1945.\n </p>\n <p>\n Siegel, Shizue.\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/ingoodconscience00seig\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment\n </i>\n .\n </a>\n San Mateo, CA: AACP, Inc., 2006.\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Allan W. Austin,\n <i>\n Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950\n </i>\n (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012), 114–16, 126, 133–34 ; Shizue Siegel,\n <i>\n In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment\n </i>\n (San Mateo, CA: AACP, Inc., 2006), 198–201. Articles in the\n <i>\n Tulean Dispatch\n </i>\n (June 12, 1943, 1) and\n <i>\n Rohwer Outpost\n </i>\n (Sept. 15, 1943, 6) mention an AFSC hostel located at 1614 31st Street managed by Copithorne operating by June. This appears to be a precursor to the Grand Avenue facility, though there is little other information available on it.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n <i>\n Gila Bulletin\n </i>\n , Sept. 28, 1945, 1; Siegel,\n <i>\n In Good Conscience\n </i>\n , 198–201; WRA press release, November 5, 1943, in \"Resettlement Program\" file, page 27, The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, call number BANC MSS 67/14 c, folder E8.00, accessed on Jan. 9, 2015 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/28722/89/bk0013c5q89/files/bk0013c5q89-FID1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/28722/89/bk0013c5q89/files/bk0013c5q89-FID1.pdf\n </a>\n ; Austin,\n <i>\n Quaker Brotherhood\n </i>\n , 142;\n <i>\n Pacific Citizen\n </i>\n , Dec. 22, 1945, 22.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160707\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.014 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.020 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 118/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1538/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 65/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 1887/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 16.175 1 -total\n 17.49% 2.829 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 16.13% 2.609 1 Template:Reflist\n 8.85% 1.431 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 8.73% 1.412 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 8.68% 1.404 1 Template:Published\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2603-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160707 and revision id 35916\n -->\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n </i>\n Top\n </a>\n</div>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/Resettlement/?format=api" ], "sources": [], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Brian%20Niiya/?format=api" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Friends%20Hostel,%20Cincinnati/?format=api", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/From%20Barbed%20Wire%20to%20Battlefields:%20Japanese%20American%20Experiences%20in%20WWII%20(exhibition)/?format=api" }