World War, 1939-1945
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Trustees Records
Collection
Identifier: UR 004
Abstract
Arkansas State University was founded on April 1, 1909 when Governor George W. Donaghey signed Act 100 into law, establishing four district agricultural schools. As part of the act, Governor Donaghey appointed the first board of trustees to the school where they established the location of the school in Jonesboro and hired V. C. Kays as the school’s first principal then president. The first few decades saw the board establish and expand the school, changing it from an agricultural high...
Dates:
1909-1999
Carl R. Reng Collection
Collection
Identifier: UR 007
Abstract
Dr. Carl R. Reng was the fourth president of Arkansas State College and oversaw one of the campus’s greatest periods of growth and change, including Arkansas State becoming a University. This collection contains scrapbooks, documentation, and books highlighting Carl Reng’s tenure as President of Arkansas State College, and later University, as well as some records from his military service.
Dates:
1927-1974; Majority of material found within 1951-1974
Second World War Prisoner of War Collection
Collection
Identifier: NEAD 033
Abstract
When the United States entered the Second World War, the British government requested the United States house prisoners of war to help alleviate their housing problems. While hesitant at first, the United States built hundreds of camps and transported nearly half a million German and Italian prisoners of war to its soil. Organizations and communities in Arkansas appealed to the War Department and their representatives to establish branch camps and use prisoners in agricultural and timber...
Dates:
1942-1949; Majority of material found within 1944-1946
Robert Whitlow Papers
Collection
Identifier: NEAD 001
Abstract
During World War II, the POWs were housed at a camp established at the Jonesboro Civilian Conservation Corps, where they first met Whitlow. This collection contains correspondence between former-German POWs and Robert Whitlow, a representative of the Memphis Press-Scimitar.
Dates:
1945-1987