War Relocation Authority

 
 
 
 

War Relocation Authority

 

These materials, published between 1942 and 1946 by the War Relocation Authority, Department of the Interior, document the removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans as ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942. Nearly 120,000 individuals would eventually be moved to ten isolated centers in remote parts of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.

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A comprehensive list of WRA resources is hosted by Bowling Green State University's University Libraries.

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We now have thirty items in this collection, which represents holdings of WRA documents from around the State of Ohio. This does not represent a complete collection of WRA documents; we hope to add more items to this collection as we locate or create digital surrogates for additional WRA publications.

Most of the works in this collection are U.S. government publications, which are not subject to copyright protection. Some works in this collection may include copyrighted materials. For these works, the digital reproduction may only be used for private study, scholarship, and research.

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    Semi-annual report.
    United States. War Relocation Authority. (War Relocation Authority; Denison University; Government Documents Round Table of Ohio; Date: 1943)
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    Relocating a people.
    United States. War Relocation Authority. (U.S. Government Printing Office; Denison University; Government Documents Round Table of Ohio; Date: 1943)
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    WRA: a story of human conservation.
    United States. War Relocation Authority. (Department of the Interior; War Relocation Authority; Denison University; Government Documents Round Table of Ohio; Date: 1946)
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    Segregation of evacuees.
    United States. War Relocation Authority. (War Relocation Authority; Denison University; Government Documents Round Table of Ohio; Date: 1943)
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    People in motion: the postwar adjustment of the evacuated Japanese Americans.
    United States. War Agency Liquidation Unit.; Cullum, Robert M. (U.S. Government Printing Office; Denison University; Government Documents Round Table of Ohio; Date: 1947)
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