What does WRA stand for?

War Relocation Authority (US WWII)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Her first job was with the War Relocation Authority, the agency that ran the internment camps.

''Knowing our situation, I had to bear with it''

War Relocation Authority, Lange's photographs were suppressed and later retired to the National Archives.

Impounded; Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese ...

Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer Three months before her high school graduation, a bubbly Helen Toyama had dreams of becoming a nurse until the War Relocation Authority posted orders to relocate her family - and thousands of other Japanese-Americans - to internment camps.

DELAYED GRADUATION WWII INTERNEES RECEIVING DIPLOMAS AT LAST

They have gathered camp photos taken by Dorothea Lange for the War Relocation Authority and by internee Toyo Miyatake.

Relics of Manzanar to tell stories of camp life

In 1942, Tatsuno was sent to Topaz War Relocation Authority center, a collection of barracks, barbed wire and guard towers about 156 miles south of Salt Lake City.

CAMP FOOTAGE MAKES FILM REGISTRY

The War Production Board, the Office of Price Administration, the War Manpower Commission, the War Relocation Authority and the Fair Employment Practice Commission became part of every American's daily life.

OVER HERE GEARED UP FOR THE FIGHT AS WAR MARCHES ACROSS THE WORLD, ...

Ultimately, 107 people died at Manzanar from December 1942 to September 1945, according to War Relocation Authority records.

BAINBRIDGE RESIDENTS RECALL CONFINEMENT

The War Relocation Authority made a strenuous effort to limit what could be photographed because it wanted to present the camp experience as more benign than was in fact the case," he said.

A PLACE THAT STILL DIVIDES AMERICANS FEDERAL PLAN TO PRESERVE CALIF. ...