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The Santa Anita Assembly Center is located in what is now the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California in Los Angeles County. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, there was fear that some Japanese Americans may be loyal to the Empire of Japan and Emperor of Japan.
Like the Washington event, it was held at a detention site: the former site of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition, which, in 1942, had been the site of the Portland Assembly Center. [15] More recently, on February 19, 2022, a Day of Remembrance mini exhibit opened in the Japanese American Museum of Oregon. [16]
The Los Angeles County Fairgrounds was selected as one of the Southern California detention camps. The other Los Angeles County camp selected was the Santa Anita assembly center at the Santa Anita Racetrack, which is also a California Historic Landmark (No. 934.07). A California Historic Landmark plaque is located near Fairplex, on the grassy ...
In June 1943, a Los Angeles women's auxiliary of the American Legion started petitions to keep any Japanese people from living on the Pacific coast again, claiming the "great danger" that even ...
Lt. Eugene Bogard, commanding officer of the Army Registration team, explains the purpose of registration to a group of Japanese Americans at Manzanar (February 11, 1943). All inmates between the ages of 18 and 38 were compelled to register. [158]
Pomona, California (Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, racetrack, stables) (Pomona assembly center) Portland, Oregon (Pacific International Livestock Exposition, including 3,800 housed in the main pavilion building) Puyallup, Washington (fairgrounds racetrack stables, Informally known as "Camp Harmony")
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Lt. Monique Williams, the prison's public information officer, said the women doing peer support are making a tangible difference.
As a result, the jails in cities like New Orleans, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York are among the largest mental health care providers in the nation.