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Date Original
1944 May 25
Description
Memorandum from A.G. Thompson, superintendent of education at Jerome Relocation Center to faculty arriving at Rohwer Relocation Center about the type and size of living quarters needed.
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
Memorandum, 8.5" x 11"
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; Education; Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.); Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Contributor
Thompson, A.G.
Geographical Area
McGehee, Desha County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000643, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 21
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Hazel Retherford papers, MS.000643
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Memorandum, A.G. Thompson to Rohwer Relocation Center School faculty, Hazel Retherford papers, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Disciplines
United States History
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Additional Content
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