Newspaper Article, "Senate Committee Would Abolish All Relocation Centers In The Country: Report Says Camps Are Only Trouble Breeders"
Date Original
1943-05-13
Creator
Dermott News
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 outlining a Senate report on Japanese-American Relocation Centers in the United States.
Physical Description
35 mm Microfilm
Subjects
Evacuations; Military assistance; Military camps; Camps; Refugee camps; War; Japanese; Japanese Americans; World War II (1939-1945); Internment camps; Relocation camps;
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
Geographical Area
Dermott, Chicot County. (Ark.)
Language
English
Local Identifier
Dermott News, MFILM News 000131 Roll 10
Digital Resource
Document
Digital Collection
You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Preferred Citation
"Senate Committee Would Abolish All Relocation Centers In The Country: Report Says Camps Are Only Trouble Breeders" Dermott News, MFILM News 000131 Roll 10, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
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 State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas
