Records about Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II

The WRA used the data to support the management of individuals and the relocation centers, in general. The series also served as a locator index to the separate series of individual evacuee case files created and maintained by the WRA.

After conversion of the punch cards to an electronic form by the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s, the Civil Rights Divis ion of the Department of Justice, used a copy of the data file to support distribution of reparations to former evacuees. This series contains personal descriptive data about Japanese Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II in the states of California (Tule Lake and Manzanar Centers), Idaho (Minidoka Center), Utah (Central Utah Center), Colorado (Granada Center), Arizona (Colorado River and Gila River Centers), Wyoming (Heart Mountain Center), and Arkansas (Rohwer and Jerome Centers).