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    Japanese Americans / Pomona Assembly Center is one of the places Japanese Americans were held during World War II. The Pomona Assembly Center was designated...
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    camp selected was the Pomona assembly center at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, California. Pomona assembly center is also a California Historical...
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  • California (Pinedale Assembly Center, warehouses) Pomona, California (Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, racetrack, stables) (Pomona assembly center) Portland, Oregon...
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    Fairplex (redirect from Pomona Fairgrounds)
    Construction on the Pomona assembly center began on March 21, 1942, and the camp officially opened on May 7, 1942. The Pomona Facility consisted of...
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    (Poston War Relocation Center – Poston assembly center) Pinedale, California (Pinedale Assembly Center, warehouses) Pomona, California (Los Angeles County Fairgrounds...
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    earliest inhabitants of Pomona Valley were the Gabrielino (Tongva) and Serrano Indians. On March 1, 1893 the California Assembly voted 54–14 for a new county...
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  • California State Polytechnic University Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), is a public polytechnic university in Pomona, California. It is the largest (by student...
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    Manzanar Assembly Center, which was operated by the Wartime Civil Control Administration. After that, it was published at the Manzanar Relocation Center until...
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    Pomona (/pəˈmoʊnə/ pə-MOH-nə) is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the...
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  • Executive Order 9066), first to the Pomona Assembly Center outside Los Angeles and later to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. During his confinement...
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    Sacramento Assembly Center a temporary detention center for interned Japanese Americans in 1942. The site is one of 12 California assembly centers that share...
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    like the two in southern California: Pomona assembly center and the Santa Anita assembly center. From these centers many were sent to other states and some...
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    been removed from their West Coast homes and placed in temporary "assembly centers" (run by a separate military body, the Wartime Civilian Control Administration...
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    Americans were moved into temporary assembly centers before being transferred to more permanent and isolated relocation centers like Granada. Run by the War...
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    themselves for removal. The "evacuees" were taken first to temporary assembly centers, requisitioned fairgrounds and horse racing tracks where living quarters...
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    000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during the Second World War. Among the inmates, the notation 峰土香 or 峯土香...
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    called "relocation centers" like Topaz during World War II. Most of the people incarcerated at Topaz came from the Tanforan Assembly Center and previously...
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    California, consists primarily of the site of the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, one of ten concentration camps constructed in 1942 by the United States...
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    May 8, as the Parker Dam Reception Center, one of two such sites that augmented the 15 temporary "assembly centers" where Japanese Americans waited to...
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    The Gila River War Relocation Center was an American concentration camp in Arizona, one of several built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during the...
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    Internment Writing, 1942–1945 (1975) Media related to Sharp Park Detention Center at Wikimedia Commons "Sharp Park (detention facility)", Densho Encyclopedia...
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  • Japanese Americans Pomona assembly center) Pomona 934.07 Temporary detention camp for Japanese Americans Santa Anita assembly center 285 W. Huntington...
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    The Rohwer War Relocation Center was a World War II Japanese American concentration camp located in rural southeastern Arkansas, in Desha County. It was...
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  • on September 23, 2010. The legislation passed unanimously in both the Assembly and Senate. It was first officially commemorated in 2011 at the University...
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  • at the hastily constructed Pomona Assembly Center for three months, before being sent to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, halfway between the cities...
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    California assembly centers. These early arrivals were forced to work on construction of their incarceration quarters. This was the last center to open and...
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    State Assembly district is one of 80 California State Assembly districts. Since 2022, it is represented by Democrat Freddie Rodriguez of Pomona. The district...
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    Students League from 1940 to mid-1942, when he was interned at the Pomona Assembly Center outside Los Angeles. The momentum of Okubo's career came to a sudden...
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  • their California home and imprisoned at Pomona Assembly Center, then transferred to Heart Mountain Relocation Center, as part of the U.S. government's program...
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    training center the Santa Anita Racetrack was used for the Santa Anita assembly center a temporary internment camp for Japanese Americans from March 27 to...
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