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a large percentage of the adult population took on jobs with the WRA helping the camp to operate, whether as mess hall workers, hospital workers, teachers, and the like, on the artificially low WRA wage scale $12,$16,$19 per month designed to insure that inmates would never be paid more than soldiers.

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Jerome's population came mostly from California,  Jerome was also the only WRA camp to have a significant population from Hawaii, mostly family members of men who had been interned in Justice Department and army camps. This group made up roughly 10% of the camp population and is often blamed for the unrest and resistance that took place there.

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What happened to the camp after they closed it? 

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What happened to the camp after they closed it? 

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After the camp was closed, it was converted into a German Prisoner of War camp.

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Jerome's schools didn't open until January 4, 1943, and even then, chairs did not appear for weeks and other supplies and equipment for months. They hired white teachers from the local community.

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The region is extremely humid and receives nearly sixty inches of rain a year. Mud was a constant problem, and the moist environment allowed mosquitos to flourish, which in turn caused malaria and other diseases to spread.

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The Jerome center was divided into 50 housing blocks surrounded by a barbed wire fence, a patrol road, and seven watchtowers.

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Where is The Jerome War Relocation Center

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Where is The Jerome War Relocation Center

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A Japanese American internment camp located in Southeastern Arkansas near the town of Jerome.

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They cropped their own vegetables just outside the fence. As well they raised other animals and created other materials. Anything they needed was created there.

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Sports were a popular activity in the camp, especially baseball and softball. There around 75 teams. Other "Japanese sports were practiced like judo and kendo.

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Anything they can carry

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The Japaneses were taken because the Americans feared that they would side with Japan and attack after the pearl Harbor occurred.

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Housed more than 16,000 Japanese- Americans

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The population of Jerome came mostly from California- urbanites from Los Angeles and the Central Valley.

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What were the conditions of the buildings?

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What were the conditions of the buildings?

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The residential buildings were without plumbing and running water

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Japanese-Americans  shared one room in the barracks, didn’t have any bathroom, it was a community bathroom, one for every block,didn’t have running water,no furniture in the barracks so they had to make it out of boxes and other scrap items found around the camp.

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Jerome confined Japanese-Americans from October 6, 1942 - June 30, 1944

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Farm Security Administration Land