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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Alan and Mary Cazort Papers Related to Japanese American Incarceration in Arkansas

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1489
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...
Dates: 1942-1945

Jay Friedlander, “A Place Called Rohwer” Videotape

 Collection
Identifier: MC 408
Scope and Content Note

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.

Dates: 1980

U. S. War Relocation Authority, Rohwer Relocation Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS G88 257
Scope and Content Note

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.

Dates: 1938-1945