War Relocation Authority

(from Challenge video)
- A civilian agency created by the President on March 18, 1942.
- It carried out the largest controlled migration in history with the movement of 110,000 people of Japanese descent from their homes in an area bordering the Pacific coast into 10 wartime communities.
- Their job was to assist in the relocation of any persons who may be required by the Army to move from their homes in the interest of military security.
- “The primary purpose of this program is to restore as many of the evacuees as possible to productive life in normal American communities” (The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/relocbook.html)