Newspaper Article, "Chinese Officials Visit Rohwer Relocation Center: Delegation to Arrive Sunday for Three-Day Tour of Local Camp"
Date Original
1945-03-15
Creator
McGehee Times
Biographical/Historical Note
After December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which selected ten sites in which to imprison more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, over half of whom were American citizens. Two of these camps 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 camps between October 1942 and November 1945.
Description
Newspaper article discussing a visit to Rohwer Relocation Center by Chinese officials.
Physical Description
35 mm microfilm
Subjects
Japanese; Japanese Americans; Internment camps; Military camps;
Related Resources
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
Geographical Area
McGehee, Desha County. (Ark.)
Language
English
Local Identifier
McGehee Times, MFN_000476, Roll 7
Digital Resource
Document
Digital Collection
You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Preferred Citation
"Chinese Officials Visit Rohwer Relocation Center: Delegation to Arrive Sunday for Three-Day Tour of Local Camp" McGehee Times, MFN_000476, Roll 7, 1945-03-15, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas
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You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas
