Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa  Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro.  Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers.  Arcadia, CA, April 5, 1942.   Clem Alberts. (WRA)
NARA FILE #:  210-G-3B-414
WAR &amp; CONFLICT #:  780

Japanese American internment

Following evacuation orders, this store was closed.   The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the &quot;I AM AN AMERICAN&quot; sign on the store front the day after Pearl Harbor.  Oakland, CA, April 1942.  Dorothea Lange. (WRA)
Exact Date Shot unknown
NARA FILE #:  210-G-2A-35
WAR &amp; CONFLICT #:  772

I am an American

Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration.  Manzanar, California.  July 3, 1942. Dorothea Lange. (WRA)
NARA FILE #:  210-G-10C-839
WAR &amp; CONFLICT #:  786