July 30, 1974

The site of the Rohwer Relocation Center in Desha County was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Rohwer was one of two World War II–era incarceration camps built in Arkansas to house Japanese Americans. The Japanese American population, of which sixty-four percent were American citizens, had been forcibly removed from the West Coast under the doctrine of “military necessity” and incarcerated in ten relocation camps in California and various states west of the Mississippi River.