Jerome, Arkansas by Sheila Gutierrez https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2017-03-15 20:24:15 UTC 2025-11-05 21:23:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Where? 332684 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160373075 Farm Security Administration Land ]]> 2017-03-15 20:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160373075 How long was the camp active? 329470 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160373602 Jerome confined Japanese-Americans from October 6, 1942 - June 30, 1944]]> 2017-03-15 20:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160373602 Impact on and experiences 336067 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160374231 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.
]]> 2017-03-15 20:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160374231 What were the conditions of the buildings? 329470 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160374674 The residential buildings were without plumbing and running water]]> 2017-03-15 20:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160374674 Where did the inmates come from? 329470 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160396943 The population of Jerome came mostly from California- urbanites from Los Angeles and the Central Valley.]]> 2017-03-15 23:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160396943 How many? 332684 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160398771 Housed more than 16,000 Japanese- Americans ]]> 2017-03-16 00:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160398771 Why were they taken? 332684 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160398784 The Japaneses were taken because the Americans feared that they would side with Japan and attack after the pearl Harbor occurred.

]]> 2017-03-16 00:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160398784 What were they allowed to take? 332684 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160651392 Anything they can carry ]]> 2017-03-16 19:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160651392 What was done for fun 329470 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160652036 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.]]> 2017-03-16 19:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160652036 Where did they get their resources? 332684 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160652686 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. ]]> 2017-03-16 20:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160652686 Where is The Jerome War Relocation Center 428154 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160655182 A Japanese American internment camp located in Southeastern Arkansas near the town of Jerome.]]> 2017-03-16 20:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160655182 How was the layout of the camp? 428154 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160655619 The Jerome center was divided into 50 housing blocks surrounded by a barbed wire fence, a patrol road, and seven watchtowers.]]> 2017-03-16 20:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160655619 how was it to live in Jerome camp? 428154 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160656451 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.]]> 2017-03-16 20:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160656451 How was the education system? 336067 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160656714 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.]]> 2017-03-16 20:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160656714 What happened to the camp after they closed it? 428154 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160656907 After the camp was closed, it was converted into a German Prisoner of War camp. ]]> 2017-03-16 20:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160656907 Camps population and administration 336067 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160657549 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.]]> 2017-03-16 20:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160657549 Employment and protest 336067 https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160657974  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.]]> 2017-03-16 20:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/329470/1q1fe5bl17vq/wish/160657974