Title

Newspaper article, "Camp's World War II Monument Crumbling"

Creator

Files

Date Original

1981 September 28

Description

Article about the historic monument to those who served in the military from Rohwer Relocation Center.

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 Rohwer Center Cemetery in Desha County, Arkansas, is one of only three Japanese relocation center cemeteries still maintained in the United States. The Nisei GI Memorial commemorates the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion. These units were made up of Japanese Americans and draftees from Hawaii. Over 800 men from these two units were killed or missing in action by the end of the war. The 100th Battalion/442nd Infantry Regiment has been recognized for being the most-decorated unit of their size in American miltary history for service during World War II.

Physical Description

Newspaper clipping

Subjects

Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Internment camps; Japanese; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 442nd

Contributor

Arkansas Gazette

Geographical Area

Little Rock, Pulaski County (Ark.)

Language

English

Identifier

MS.000119, Box 2, Folder 9, Item 7

Resource Type

Text

Collection

Joseph Boone Hunter collection, MS.000119

Publisher

Arkansas State Archives

Contributing Entity

Arkansas State Archives

Recommended Citation

Newspaper article, "Camp's World War II Monument Crumbling", 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