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Title |
Letter, Governor Homer Adkins to I.C. Oxner, Distributor for Gulf Oil Products |
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Date Original |
1943-01-11 |
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Creator |
Adkins, Homer M. |
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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. |
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Description |
Governor Adkins informs I.C. Oxner that, as Governor, he has taken a firm stand against allowing interned Japanese-Americans to leave the camps for any reason. He expresses disappointment that they are speaking Japanese and not English when visiting McGehee and is not happy that they had been allowed to leave the camp. |
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Physical Description |
Letter, 8" x 10" |
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Subjects |
Evacuations; Military assistance; Military camps; Camps; Refugee camps; War; Japanese; Japanese Americans; World War II (1939-1945); Internment camps; Relocation camps; |
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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.); Little Rock, Pulaski County. (Ark.) |
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Language |
English |
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Local Identifier |
Homer Adkins Papers, MS.000404, Box 4, Folder 112, Item 60 |
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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 |
Letter, Governor Homer Adkins to I.C. Oxner, Distributor for Gulf Oil Products, Homer Adkins Papers, MS.000404, Box 4, Folder 112, Item 60, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas. |
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Rights and Usage |
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You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas
