Title

Weekly general comment by project director

Creator

Files

Date Original

1944 April 22

Description

Weekly general comment from Rohwer Relocation Center project director Austin Smith on April 22, 1944.

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

Microfilm

Subjects

Japanese; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Internment camps; Military camps; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)

Contributor

War Relocation Authority

Geographical Area

McGehee, Desha County (Ark.)

Language

English

Identifier

MG04350

Resource Type

Text

Collection

Austin Smith papers, MG04350

Publisher

Arkansas State Archives

Contributing Entity

Arkansas State Archives

Recommended Citation

Weekly general comment by project director, Austin Smith papers, 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; 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