Challenge to Democracy, ca. 1944

Creator: Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. (02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946) (Most Recent)
Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled ca. 1939 - ca. 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Release Date: ca. 1944
Scope & Content: This film documents the lifestyle of Japanese-Americans (also known as Nisei) relocated during World War II. Scenes show housing at relocation centers in Arkansas and at Heart Mountain, Wyoming; the evacuees as they attended schools; held elections (they were self-governing); and produced crops (under irrigation) at the centers. Released Nisei worked in a sugar beet field, on an Illinois farm, in a machine shop, a candy factory, etc. Additional footage includes parts of three newsreels that focus on the Japanese-American military contribution to the war: Nisei soldiers as they ran through an obstacle course at Camp Shelby, Mississippi; General Mark Clark as he decorated the Japanese-American 100th Infantry Battalion in Italy (RKO Pathe News); Nisei troops of the 442nd Combat Team as they rescued a "lost" battalion of the 141st Infantry Regiment in France (RKO Pathe News); and as Nisei troops fired artillery in France (Movietone News).
Access Restriction: Unrestricted
Use Restriction: Restricted - Possibly
Note: Some or all of this material may be restricted by copyright or other intellectual property rights restrictions.
Contact: National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
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National Archives Identifier: 39226
Local Identifier: 210.5
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