Instructions posted during Japanese American relocation
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Instructions posted during Japanese American relocation

A notice posted on a wall in San Francisco, California, lists “evacuation” instructions for the area’s Japanese American residents, 1942. They were deported, first to temporary “assembly centers,” and from there to relocation centers in remote areas of the United States.


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  • National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD
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