Title

Telegram, Governor Homer Adkins to Char. A. Cornell

Creator

Files

Date Original

1943 May 18

Description

Char. A. Cornell is writing to express interest in hiring Japanese Americans being detained in Arkansas's relocation camps. Governor Adkins is referring Cornell to Paul McNutt, who is with the War Manpower Commission in Washington, D.C.

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

Telegram, 8" x 6"

Subjects

Adkins, Homer Martin, 1890-1964; 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; labor

Contributor

Adkins, Homer M.

Geographical Area

Johnstown, Licking County (Ohio); Little Rock, Pulaski County (Ark.)

Language

English

Identifier

Homer Adkins, MS.000404, Box 4, Folder 112, Item 85

Resource Type

Text

Collection

Homer M. Adkins papers, MS.000404

Publisher

Arkansas State Archives

Contributing Entity

Arkansas State Archives

Recommended Citation

Telegram, Governor Homer Adkins to Char. A. Cornell, Homer M. Adkins 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; 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