The final stop on the Arkansas Delta’s Economic Heritage Summer Tour is one that you will not want to miss. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese Americans along the west coast were forcibly moved to relocation centers across the interior of the United States. Two relocation centers were in Southeast Arkansas located in Jerome and Rohwer. The World War II Japanese American Internment Museum in McGehee tells the story of the people interred in Jerome and Rohwer while the Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery is a National Historic Landmark at the location of the Rohwer Relocation Camp.
Participants will have a tour of the museum and the Rohwer site learning about this important chapter in American history and leave with ideas on how to teach students about this chapter of American history.
Margaret Rogers, Museum Director, will lead the tour and share many great resources. Terra Aquia, K12 Programs Coordinator at the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics at the University of Central Arkansas will help us make the economic connections through several lessons related to this Delta historic site.
This project is made possible by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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