Wartime Civil Control Administration opens 15 Assembly Centers
1media/LT_sjs_fla_0404_19420807_thumb.jpg2021-01-30T15:19:01-08:00Steve Kutay2a3698b64111c4575df6dabf06e183b410497fa3385022After General DeWitt designates Western coastal areas as places where people of Japanese descent should be removed, the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) opens 15 Assembly Centers to detain them. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) is established through Executive Order 9102 and the transfers of 119,803 men, women, and children to these more permanent facilities are completed. In this photograph from 1942, is a busy scene of family groups identifying their baggages prior to departure from the assembly center at Santa Anita, California. Caption on album page: "Transfer of the evacuees from the Assembly Centers to War Relocation Centers was conducted by the Army. Train lists were made up so that families would not be separated and in most instances, groups associated by residence in pre-evacuation days were kept together.plain2021-02-01T12:37:42-08:0008/07/1942Collecting luggageSteve Kutay2a3698b64111c4575df6dabf06e183b410497fa3
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