![]() ![]() Camp Jerome, at its peak, had a population of 8,497. Two of the camps - the last to open - were located in Rohwer, a community located northeast of McGehee, and Jerome, Arkansas.Īccording to Richard Reeves' "Infamy," published in 2015, at their peak the relocation facilities held 120,313 Japanese Americans. 19, 1942, two months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the order, which resulted in the forced evacuation and imprisonment of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese American citizens to 10 "relocation centers" across the country. Its purpose: documenting the result of Executive Order 9066. ![]() The ceremony commemorated the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Japanese American Internment Museum. On Thursday, Yasamura and roughly 200 other Japanese Americans rode three chartered buses to attend a ceremony held outside McGehee's old train depot. McGEHEE - Hachi Yasamura's shirt is simple, concise and loaded with history.Īgainst a distorted background of red numbers and letters that resemble computer code, white lettering reads: "Executive Order 9066" and "02.19.42." ![]()
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