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1943 April 30
Description
Black and white photograph taken by the War Relocation Authority of Japanese-American youth playing basketball. The game is being played in Block 33 between Denson and Rohwer at Jerome 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.
Transcription
April 30, 1943
Jerome Relocation Center
Official Photograph - not to be removed from
the files
Photographer - T. Okano
*****
Denson and Rohwer basketbell game. View
shot from sidlelines on basketball court 33
Action picture
Physical Description
Photograph, 5" x 7"
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; Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.)
Contributor
T. Okano
Geographical Area
Jerome, Drew County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
G4720.23
Resource Type
Image
Collection
General photo file
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Denson and Rohwer basketball game, General photo file, 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
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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