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Official name: Jerome Relocation Center
Location: Drew and Chicot Counties, southeastern Arkansas
Land: Farm Security Administration land
Size: 10,000 acres
Climate: Swamp land; green and tropical; humid

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During my studies of the Japanese internment during World War II, I learned that some innocent people went through bad times and treated unfairly.

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(February 1943)
8,497

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Relocation Camp was located in Southeast Arkansas in Chicot and Drew Counties.

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The camp was open October 6th 1942 and ended June 30th 1944

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By: Aiden Jahanmir
and Isaac Ortega
English-6
Period 4

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Meet the Locals of the Japanese American Internment Museum in McGehee

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The Japanese American Internment Museum in McGehee preserves the history of the internment camps located in Rohwer and Jerome in southeast Arkansas. In 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government decided to place Japanese American citizens in internment camps for reasons of security.