Arkansas event to highlight World War II internment camps

(Little Rock, Arkansas-AP) -- Hundreds of Japanese-Americans held in Arkansas internment camps during World War Two will revisit their turbulent past at a planned September conference.

Organizers expect between 800 and one-thousand people to attend the four-day series of exhibits, lectures, and other events planned in Little Rock from September 23rd through the 26th.

The conference will conclude two years of intensive research on the largely neglected history of the Jerome and Rohwer camps in southeast Arkansas.

Between 1942 and 1945, the two southeast Arkansas camps held 16-thousand detainees.

More than 120-thousand Japanese-Americans were sent from the West Coast and Hawaii to ten internment camps at the beginning of the war. Eight camps were in the West. The Arkansas sites were the only ones in the South.

From: http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=1895