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Description
Official correspondence from Mike Masaoka to A. Clark Stratton concerning the Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery.
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. These camps were open from October 1942 to November 1945, with over 16,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during that period.
Physical Description
Letter, 8.5" x 11"
Subjects
Japanese; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Internment camps; Military camps; Cemeteries; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Geographical Area
McGehee, Desha County (Ark.); Washington (D.C.)
Language
English
Identifier
MS.000119, Box 1, Folder 3, Item 6
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Joseph Boone Hunter collection, MS.000119
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Letter, Mike Masaoka to A. Clark Stratton, 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
