U.S. Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas Records
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Scope and Content Note
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.
Dates
- 1942-1944
Creator
- Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Use Information
No Use Restrictions Apply.
No Interlibrary Loan.
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Located in the Delta region of southeastern Arkansas, the Jerome War Relocation Center was the last American concentration camp for Japanese-Americans to open and the first to close, serving as such from October 1942 to June 1944.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)
Arrangement of the Papers
Collection is arranged in seven files.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from South by Southwest Books as a composite collection, Fayetteville, Arkansas in November 1979
Processing Information
Processed by Special Collections Staff.
2022 Update: Processors transcribed the description of materials from the South by Southwest Books description of the items, including brackets in place of quotation marks and acronyms describing the format of items within the collection.
Finding aid language was updated by Adam Heien in April 2022 as part of a project to update outdated or harmful description about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Creator
- Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.) (Organization)
Source
- South by Southwest Books (Fayetteville, Ark.) (Seller, Organization)
- Title
- U.S. Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Samuel Sizer
- Date
- unknown
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Revision Statements
- April 8, 2022: Finding aid revised by Adam Heien in April 2022 as part of a project to update outdated or harmful description about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu