Arkansas housed two internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept for the duration of World War II. In this episode, Kim Sanders, the former Confinement Site Interpreter for the Butler Center of Arkansas Studies, discusses the history of Jerome and Rohwer and how this history can help us address continued injustices in the present. 

For more information on Japanese Internment in Arkansas:

Japanese-American Relocation Camps

George Takei's graphic novel They Called Us Enemy

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