Japanese-Americans Interned at Santa Anita

Japanese-American internees wave to friends departing by train from the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California, 1942. The camp was a temporary detention facility for some of the 120,000 Japanese Americans excluded from the West Coast under wartime presidential Executive Order 9066. (Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

At Santa Anita and Topaz. Internees at Santa Anita Relocation Center in Arcadia, California, watch a train leave that facility. (Library of Congress/Getty Images)

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