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Date Original
1945 January 06
Description
Typed memorandum from Helen Frasier, adult education supervisor of the War Relocation Authority, to all Rohwer Relocation Center teachers, including Hazel Retherford. The memorandum talks about registration for English classes.
Biographical/Historical Note
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9022, creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The WRA selected ten sites in which to imprison more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, over two-thirds of whom were American citizens. Two of these centers were in the Arkansas Delta, one at Rohwer in Desha County, and the other at Jerome in sections of Chicot and Drew counties. Over 16,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in these two centers between October 1942 and November 1945. Hazel Linam Retherford was born on January 27, 1906. During World War II, she was a teacher at both the Jerome and Rohwer Japanese relocation centers in Arkansas, eventually helping to close both centers. She later went to Washington, District of Columbia, to complete War Relocation Authority records on the camps.
Transcription
MEMORANDUM
January 5, 1945
To: All Teachers
Subject: Registration for English Classes
We shall hold registration for classes in Beginning English
next Wednesday and Thursday int he west wing of the auditorium.
If you can show your pupils the important of the opportu-
nity to learn English, they can persuade their parents to enroll.
It is very likely that adults who leave this center without
knowing English will not have another opportunity to study it in
school.
Helen Frasier, Supervisor
Adult Education
Physical Description
Memorandum, 8.5" x 11"
Subjects
Evacuation of civilians; Military assistance; Military camps; Camps; War; Japanese; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Internment camps; Relocation camps; Education; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Contributor
Frasier, Helen
Geographical Area
McGehee, Desha County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000643, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 27
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Hazel Retherford papers, MS.000643
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Memorandum, Helen Frasier to Rohwer Relocation Center teachers, Hazel Retherford papers, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
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Disciplines
United States History
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Additional Content
Hazel Retherford papers, MS.000643; Amon Guy Thompson papers, MG04582-MG04586; Austin Smith papers, 1942-1945, MG04350; Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, MG01299; Community Analysis Reports and Community Analysis Trend Reports of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946, MG03846-MG03847; Japanese Camp papers, MG03848-MG03869
