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San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil control station for registration in response to the Army's exclusion order No. 20--The evacuees will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration

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Lange, Dorothea

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  1. California
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Japanese Americans
  4. Photographic Prints
  5. Queues
  6. San Francisco
  7. World War, 1939 1945

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[San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. A dry goods store closing out its merchandise shortly before the evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Post and Buchanan streets neighborhood of San Francisco] Civilian exclusion order #5, posted at First and Front streets, directing removal by April 7 of persons of Japanese ancestry, from the first San Francisco section to be affected by evacuation Oakland, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at [401 - 403 Eighth] and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war Jap[anese] boy on way to camp To evacuate Santa Anita required a total of 38 train movements and 3 movements by bus. The last evacuee left the center on October 27, 1942 San Pedro, Cal. Apr. 1942. Fishing boats, formerly operated by residents of Japanese ancestry, tied up for the duration in Los Angeles harbor The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order Japanese waiting for registration at the Santa Anita reception center. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order Japanese try to sell their belongings. San Pedro, Calif. Apr. 1942. The last Redondo Beach residents of Japanese ancestry leaving by truck for relocation Research reports G-men, sheriff aides, hunt Jap spies Los Angeles, Calif. - Searching for short wave radios, signal lights, guns and cameras, G-men and deputy sheriffs raided 40 Japanese owned farms on the rugged Palos Verdes coast, south of Los Angeles. An officer searches for contraband as farm owners (Japanese-American citizens) watch in background, but found the place "clean" of any signaling devices of forbidden radios. [Thurgood Marshall shaking hands with George Christopher, the mayor of San Francisco, as Roy Wilkins and R.J. Reynolds look on at 47th annual NAACP convention in San Francisco, June 26-July 1] N.A.A.C.P. 47th annual convention, June 26-July 1, 1956, San Francisco Thurgood Marshall pins orchid on Mrs. Lulu White, director of branches for the Texas State Conference of NAACP branches, at Freedom Fund Dinner, Sheraton-Palace Hotel, on June 28, during 47th annual NAACP Convention in San Francisco, June 26-July 1956 Seated left are Kivie Kaplan, of Boston, co-chairman, NAACP life membership committee, and Mrs. R.P. Beshears of St. Joseph, acting president of the Missouri State Conference of NAACP branches / While two of their comrades lie wounded on the ground, others shout obscenities at police who fired upon them as rioting broke out in San Francisco's Hunters Point area Platform guests at closing session of 47th annual NAACP convention in San Francisco, June 26-July 1 First row, left to right: Dr. James E. Levy, Cleveland, O.; Judge Carl Johnson, Kansas City, L.; R.J. Reynolds, San Francisco; Franklin H. Williams; Roy Wilkins; Dr. Claude Hudson, Los Angeles; Mrs. Wilkins; Kelly Alexander, Charlotte, N.C.; Mrs. Lillie M. Jackson, Baltimore; Dr. J.M. Tinsley, Richmond, Va.; and Sam Williams, East Orange, N.J. Picket Yellow cabs in San Francisco Departure First rural rehabilitation colonists, northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska Wartime housing in Little Tokyo's Bronzeville, Los Angeles (Calif.)
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