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Date Original
1942 June 11
Description
Article discussing problems with the relocation camp at Rohwer and steps that will be taken to mitigate problems in addition to details about internee work and the establishment of a War Relocation Authority office in McGehee.
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 Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Internment camps; Military camps; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Contributor
McGehee Times
Geographical Area
McGehee, Desha County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
MFILM NEWS 000476, Roll 6
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Newspaper microfilm collection: McGehee Times, MFILM NEWS 000476
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Newspaper article, "Drainage One Of Big Problems At Jap Site: Relocation Authority Offices to be Located in McGehee", Newspaper microfilm collection: McGehee Times, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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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