War Relocation Authority

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:government_agency
gptkbp:abolished gptkb:Executive_Order_9742
gptkbp:controversy civil rights violations
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:createdBy gptkb:Executive_Order_9102
gptkbp:dissolved 1946
gptkbp:employs over 7,000 people at its peak
gptkbp:firstDirector gptkb:Milton_S._Eisenhower
gptkbp:formed 1942
gptkbp:headquarters_location gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label War Relocation Authority
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Jerome
gptkb:Gila_River
gptkb:Granada_(Amache)
gptkb:Heart_Mountain
gptkb:Minidoka
gptkb:Poston
gptkb:Rohwer
gptkb:Tule_Lake
gptkb:Manzanar
Topaz
gptkbp:notableCase gptkb:Korematsu_v._United_States
gptkb:Hirabayashi_v._United_States
gptkb:Yasui_v._United_States
gptkbp:notableEmployee gptkb:Paul_Taylor
gptkb:Ruth_Benedict
gptkb:John_Collier
gptkb:Robert_Fletcher
gptkb:Carey_McWilliams
gptkb:Charles_Kikuchi
gptkb:Edward_Ennis
gptkb:Eleanor_Roosevelt_(advisor)
gptkb:Esther_Lape
gptkb:James_Lindley
gptkb:Karl_Bendetsen
gptkb:Dorothy_Swaine_Thomas
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Final_Report:_Japanese_Evacuation_from_the_West_Coast,_1942
gptkbp:notablePublication gptkb:WRA:_A_Story_of_Human_Conservation
gptkbp:operates internment camps
relocation centers
gptkbp:oversees gptkb:migration
incarceration of Japanese Americans
incarceration of some German Americans
incarceration of some Italian Americans
over 110,000 Japanese Americans
relocation and resettlement
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Executive_Office_of_the_President
gptkbp:responsible_for gptkb:internment_of_Japanese_Americans
gptkbp:second_director gptkb:Dillon_S._Myer
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Heart_Mountain_Relocation_Center
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5