FRCI is Proud to Welcome the Topaz Museum to Our Client Family

December, 2011:  FRCI is proud to welcome the Topaz Museum to our client family.  The Topaz Museum, a non-profit, volunteer organization, owns 626 acres of the Topaz site, which was one square mile in Delta, Utah. The organization is now seeking funding to build the Topaz Museum on the site.

The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII was one of the worst violations of civil rights in the history of the United States. The government and the US Army, falsely citing “military necessity,” locked up over 110,000 men, women and children in ten remote camps controlled by the War Relocation Administration and four male-only camps controlled by the Justice Department. These Americans were never convicted or even charged with any crime, yet were incarcerated for up to four years in prison camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.

One of the WRA camps, Topaz, which was located 16 miles northwest of Delta in central Utah, on the lip of the Great Basin. Topaz processed 11,212 people through the camp while it was in operation from September 11, 1942 to October 31, 1945.

FRCI is proud to be providing campaign counsel for this important historical effort.