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Date Original
1964 May 15
Description
This letter is informing Mike Masaoka, of the Japanese American Citizens League, that the Rohwer Center Cemetery and Nisei GI Memorial does not qualify as an addition to the National Park system.
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.
Physical Description
Letter, two pages, 8" x 10"
Subjects
Japanese; Cemeteries; National parks & reserves; Memorial works; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.); World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Geographical Area
Washington, District of Columbia
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000119, Box 1, Folder 3, Item 12
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Joseph Boone Hunter collection, MS.000119
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Letter, acting assistant director of the National Park Service to Mike Masaoka, Joseph Boone Hunter collection, 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