#japanese american incarceration
Men in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo read bulletins with instructions on their impending removal to incarceration camps, 4/11/1942.
Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Image description: Men stand on a sidewalk and read a sign posted in an empty shop window. The sign is in Japanese.
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Wearing his WWI U.S. Navy uniform, a man of Japanese descent arrives at Santa Anita Assembly Center after being forced to leave his home on the West Coast, 4/5/1942.
Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Image description: A gray-haired man in a WWI US Navy dress uniform holds the open door of a car. Another man wearing a trenchcoat and an armband reading STAFF writes on a notepad.
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Barracks at a temporary “Assembly Center” as people await transfer to an incarceration camp on 3/31/1942. About 120,000 people of Japanese descent were removed from their homes during WWII.
Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Image description: A man sits on a bed in a building with wooden plank walls. Shelves hold some personal belongings such as books, shaving equipment, and a photo. Two other beds, some folding camp stools, and a table are also visible. A piece of fabric is nailed up in front of the window.
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George and Michiko Uchida were married, 4/27/1942.
Two days later, they were taken to an incarceration camp for people of Japanese ancestry.
About two-thirds of the Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII were American citizens.
Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Image description: George and Michiko Uchida stand in front of a flower arrangement, holding hands. He is wearing a suit with a carnation in the lapel buttonhole; she is wearing a medium-dark dress with white collar and cuffs, and a large corsage of lilacs.
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First-graders recite the Pledge of Allegiance at their school in San Francisco. People of Japanese ancestry, including children, would soon be removed from their homes on the West Coast and sent to incarceration camps. 4/20/1942.
Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Image description: Children, some of Asian descent and some of European descent, stand in a line and hold their right hands over their hearts. One little boy is looking directly at the camera.
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Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center published this newsletter, 6/5/1942. The Evacuazette documents life in the converted livestock exposition center.
File Unit: Unsolicited Testimony J, 1981 - 1982
Series: Unsolicited Testimony Files, 1981 - 1982
Record Group 220: Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards, 1893 - 2008
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