November 26, 2009

The World War II-era Japanese American relocation site at Jerome in Drew and Chicot counties had barracks, schools, gymnasiums, canteens, and a hospital section. Shown here are the camp’s school-age children exercising on the elementary school grounds. The incarcerated youth at the Jerome camp had the most negative reaction to the army’s 1943 forced loyalty and military draft program. Several hundred young people peacefully marched to the camp director’s building and petitioned against the program.