
Feb. 19, 2017, is the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's signing Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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A sign outside a store in Oakland, California, March 1942. The store was closed after orders to relocate people of Japanese descent.
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Members of the Mochida family awaiting relocation by bus in Hayward, California, May 8, 1942. Identification tags were used to aid in keeping family units intact during all phases of relocation. The father operated a nursery and five greenhouses on in Eden Township and raised snapdragons and sweet peas.
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Residents of Japanese ancestry appear for registration before relocation in San Francisco, April 25, 1942.
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First-graders, some of Japanese ancestry, at the Raphael Weill Elementary School in San Francisco during the Pledge of Allegiance, April 1942.
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Ten cars of evacuees of Japanese ancestry bound for Merced Assembly Center, in Woodland, Yolo County, California, May 20, 1942.
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Japanese-Americans are relocated from Long Beach, California, to an internment center in 1942.
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Field laborers of Japanese ancestry receive instructions regarding their relocation, in Byron, California, April 28, 1942.
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Japanese-Americans at an internment center in San Bruno, California, line up outside a mess hall, April 29, 1942.
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American children of Japanese ancestry await the arrival of a bus taking them from their homes to an internment center, in Byron, California, May 2, 1942.
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Barracks for families at the San Bruno internment center in California, June 16, 1942. The barrack were previously stalls for racehorses.
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The Miyatake family at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California in 1943.
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Mealtime in one of the mess halls at the Manzanar Relocation Center, July 2, 1942.
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M. Ogi, S. Sugimoto and Bunkichi Hayashi in a warehouse at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in 1943.
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A nurse tends to four infants at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in 1943.
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Three schoolchildren at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in 1943.
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A child receives a haircut in Manzanar Relocation Center in Manzanar, California, in 1942.
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Land is cleared of sagebrush to enlarge the Manzanar Relocation Center, June 30, 1942.
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A dust storm at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, July 1942.
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