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Date Original
crica 1934-1936
Description
Arkansas Gazette newspaper article about Dr. Hunter's interview with Baron Sakatone, House of Peers, in Japan as well as his teaching position at the University of Arkansas.
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. 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
Newspaper clipping; 4" x.5"
Subjects
Japanese; Churches; Young Men's Christian associations; Authors; Teaching; Earthquakes
Contributor
Arkansas Gazette
Geographical Area
LIttle Rock, Pulaski County (Ark)
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000119, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 3
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Joseph Boone Hunter collection, MS.000119
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Newspaper Article: "Dr. Hunter Meets Japanese Leaders", Joseph Boone Hunter collection, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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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