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Title |
Newspaper Article, "Food for Thought" |
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Date Original |
1943-09-02 |
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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. The Japanese American Citizens League was founded in 1929 by existing Nisei organizations in California and Washington and is the oldest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States. Joseph Boone Hunter was born on December 27, 1886, and died in September 1987. His career included teaching in public schools and colleges, serving as an Army chaplain with active foreign service, missionary work in the Far East and Middle East, work in the United States Civil Service, and a score of interim pastorates. |
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Description |
This is a newspaper article discussing the behavior of Japanese-Americans in McGehee and the local response to the Japanese-Americans. |
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Subjects |
Japanese; Japanese Americans; Internment camps; Military camps; World War II (1939-1945) |
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Related Resources |
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 |
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Geographical Area |
McGehee, Desha County (Ark.) |
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Language |
English |
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Local Identifier |
McGehee Times, MFN_000476, Roll 7 |
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Digital Resource |
Document |
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Digital Collection |
You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas |
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Publisher |
Arkansas State Archives |
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Preferred Citation |
Newspaper Article, "Food for Thought" McGehee Times, MFN_000476, Roll 7, 1943-09-02, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas |
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Rights and Usage |
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas History Commission, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov. |
You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas
