Syndication News Column:
Americans Of Japanese Heritage
Part Six

Turlock Prison And Gila River Prison

Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at Turlock Assembly Center in Turlock, California.  The Federal government
made the decision that babies and small children were considered threats to the American people.
(The photograph was created by Ms. Dorothea Lange for the War Relocation Authority of the U S Department of the
Interior and provided courtesy of The United States National Archives and Records Administration, May 2, 1942.)

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited the Gila River Prison in Arizona.
She is seen here being escorted by Mr. Dillon Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority.
(The photograph of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library was provided courtesy of The United
States National Archives and Records Administration, April 23 1943.)

The view of the Butte Camp at the Gila River Prison operated by the Federal government in Rivers, Arizona.
(The photograph was from the War Relocation Authority of the U S Department of the Interior was provided
courtesy of The United States National Archives and Records Administration, March 14, 1944.) 

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