Files
Download Full Text (296 KB)
Date Original
1964 July 31
Description
Letter from Dr. Joseph Hunter to Mike Masaoka with the Japanese American Citizens League informing him that Mickey Nakamura of Scott, Arkansas, is going to be assisting them in their struggle to provide adequate care for the Rohwer Center Cemetery and the Nisei GI Memorial. The American Legion in Chicago will be providing funds for the cemetery and memorial in Rohwer. Dr. Hunter believes that the American Legion will be strong allies in this undertaking.
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. The Japanese American Citizens League was founded in 1929 by existing Nisei organizations in California and Washington and is the oldest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States. Joseph Boone Hunter was born on December 27, 1886, and died in September 1987. His career included teaching in public schools and colleges, serving as an Army chaplain with active foreign service, missionary work in the Far East and Middle East, work in the United States Civil Service, and a score of interim pastorates.
Physical Description
Document, 8" x 10"
Subjects
Japanese; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Cemeteries; National parks & reserves; Memorial works; Internment Camps
Contributor
Hunter, Joseph Boone, 1886-1987
Geographical Area
Washington, District of Columbia
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000119, Box 1, Folder 3, Item 19
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Joseph Boone Hunter collection, MS.000119
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Letter, Dr. Joseph Hunter to Mike Masaoka, Joseph Boone Hunter collection, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
Preview
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
