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File contains correspondence from former students at Denson High School concerning activities after leaving Jerome Relocation Center – new schools, jobs, adjustment and acceptance in new communities, plans, and ambitions.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Files contain class exercises, largely student autobiographies, reflecting, to some extent, lifestyles before forced removal and backgrounds in California and Hawaii. Some papers discuss experiences at the temporary detention centers in Fresno and Arcadia, California, while several present views concerning the forced removal of incarcerres in private life outside the American concentration camps. Less frequently mentioned subjects include: Japanese-American relationships with white people...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Files contain class exercises, largely student autobiographies, reflecting, to some extent, lifestyles before forced removal and backgrounds in California and Hawaii. Some papers discuss experiences at the temporary detention centers in Fresno and Arcadia, California, while several present views concerning the forced removal of incarcerres in private life outside the American concentration camps. Less frequently mentioned subjects include: Japanese-American relationships with white people...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Files contain class exercises, largely student autobiographies, reflecting, to some extent, lifestyles before forced removal and backgrounds in California and Hawaii. Some papers discuss experiences at the temporary detention centers in Fresno and Arcadia, California, while several present views concerning the forced removal of incarcerres in private life outside the American concentration camps. Less frequently mentioned subjects include: Japanese-American relationships with white people...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Files contain class exercises, largely student autobiographies, reflecting, to some extent, lifestyles before forced removal and backgrounds in California and Hawaii. Some papers discuss experiences at the temporary detention centers in Fresno and Arcadia, California, while several present views concerning the forced removal of incarcerres in private life outside the American concentration camps. Less frequently mentioned subjects include: Japanese-American relationships with white people...

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File contains a paper, “Background for the Relocation Program,” prepared for the WRA staff; and a statement by Dillion Seymour Myer, Director of the WRA, before the Subcommittee, January 1943, concerning the WRA, the basic policies of relocation center administration, basic policies regarding leave and outside employment, and principles governing incarceree property; also, material related to the use of military police at War Relocation Centers.

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File contains Community Analysis Reports entitled “Causes of Unrest at Relocation Centers,” “Japanese Groups and Associations in the United States,” “Evacuee Resistances to Relocation,” and “Japanese Americans Educated in Japan.” Folder also includes Administrative Notices concerning matters related to employees of the WRA.

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File contains material concerning the segregation of Japanese American incarcerees who would not swear a loyalty oath in American concentration camps, including a statement on the segregation program for appointed WRA personnel.

Scope and Contents File contains largely material concerning education, including WRA bulletins regarding schools during forced removal. Significant subjects include: Forced removal guidance or preparation of the incarceree, through school programs and processes, for permanent resettlement; and suggestions for curriculum development- organization, aims, criteria, and appraisal. File also includes bulletins and leaflets from the Educational Services Branch of the Office of Price Administration concerning...

Scope and Contents File contains largely memoranda and correspondence to appointed personnel of Jerome Relocation Center concerning various administrative matters; a copy of the telephone directory for personnel of the center; and handwritten drafts of Virginia Tidball letters regarding matters related to El Dorado, Ark. Junior College, where she was a teacher, and inquiries concerning a position as a secondary teacher with Jerome Relocation Center. Correspondents include: J. B. Cook, Chief Internal Security...

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File contains administrative forms, comptroller's vouchers, payroll deduction forms, church bulletins, graduation programs, school handbook, and invitations concerning Denson Schools, Jerome Community Christian Church, Denson Buddhist Church, Jerome Cooperative Enterprises, Inc., and other center activities.

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File contains largely reprints of newspaper articles concerning Japanese-Americans and the forced removal program; also, a photo-story depicting life in an American concentration camp and an article regarding schools for Japanese-Americans during the war.

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File contains miscellaneous publications and materials, including two issues of Elementary Echoes, published by fifth-grade students at Jerome; a few Community Christian Church bulletins; four issues of Co-op News, published by Jerome Cooperative Enterprises, Inc., Denson, Arkansas; and a few other miscellaneous items.

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File contains several issues of the Resettlement Bulletin, published by the Committee on Resettlement of Japanese-Americans, George E. Rundquist, editor.