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Legal opinions, proceedings, memoranda, report, and published materials pertaining to the U.S. War Relocation Authority, especially as regards its Central Utah Relocation Project at Topaz, Utah, and to its successor agency, the War Agency Liquidation Unit of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Scope and Content Note The collection consist of correspondence, printed and mimeographed material, newspaper clippings, and notes. Correspondence includes letters between the Y.W.C.A. and Mary Cazort concerning the creation of a Y.W.C.A. program at the Rowher and Jerome American concentration camps. The collection also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the American concentration camps, including the employment of Japanese American incarcerees on local farms. The collection also includes copies of the...

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Sixty-minute color 3/4" videotape, produced by University of Arkansas at Little Rock associate professor of journalism Friedlander for Arkansas Educational Television Network in the summer of 1980; featuring photographs from National Archives and Records Service’s records of U.S. War Relocation Authority, interviews with former WRA incarceree Sam Yada and former WRA administrator Joseph Boone Hunter, and a discussion by Friedlander; broadcast by AETN March 29, 1981.

Scope and Content Note The collection contains all types of correspondence and information concerning the War Relocation Authority - General Information such as offices and functions of the War Relocation Authority, facts about it, administration highlights, wartime handling of incarceree property, problems of incarceree resettlement, constitutional principles involved in the relocation program, and the public relations program of the War Relocation Authority. The legal correspondence consists of...

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Correspondence, memoranda; reports; bulletins; lists; budgets and other financial records: scrapbooks: camp newspapers, periodicals, and other printed titles; photographs; and other materials created, received, or collected by Nat R. Griswold while he served, 1943-1945, as Superintendent of the Community Activities Section of the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Ark., and pertaining to the operation of the center and to the life and work of its residents.

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Correspondence, memoranda, transcripts of hearings, and other documents pertaining, variously, to: investigations, testimony, and other proceedings on incarcerees' applications for leave clearance and on segregation of incarceree; the suicide of an incarceree; legal services rendered, August 1943, by camp's Project Attorney; resignation of War Relocation Authority Assistant Solicitor Robert Allen Leflar. Correspondents include Ulys A. Lovell, Dillon Seymour Myer.

Scope and Content Note Sixty-four 8" x 10" glossy prints, 31 of the Rohwer Relocation Center at McGehee, Ark. and 33 of the Jerome Relocation Center at Denson, Ark., together with 680 electrostatic copies of photographs (64 of those in 8" x 10" prints and 616 others) with coded and captioned identifications. Photographs and electrostatic copies depict aspects of American concentration camp administration and facilities and of the life and work of incarcerees held there. Prints and electrostatic copies are...