United States War Relocation Authority Central Utah Project Records 1941-1945

Central Utah Relocation Project

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The U.S. War Relocation Authority was established to administer the affairs of Japanese Americans evacuated during World War II. Roughly 9,000 Japanese American residents of the San Francisco Bay Area were incarcerated at the WRA's Central Utah Relocation Project, later Central Utah Relocation Center (known as Topaz), for the majority of the Second World War. Topaz opened in September 1942, and by the end of the year it housed virtually all Japanese Americans from the Bay Area. The first issue o...

Bankson, Russell A. (Russell Arden), 1889-1976

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Russell Bankson, newspaperman and fiction writer, was born in Mt. Hope, Washington on February 21, 1889. He attended Washington State College, Pullman from 1910-1912. He worked as reporter and editor for the Spokane Daily Chronicle, and on the editorial staff of the Spokesman-Review, both in Spokane. He contributed fiction and articles to a variety of magazines, and wrote books of western adventure and history. During World War II, he worked for the War Reloc...

Wakasa, James

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Central Utah Relocation Center

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