Category:Tanforan Assembly Center

**Tanforan Assembly Center**
	a makeshift concentration camp set up by the U.S. Army in 1942 to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry
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Instance of	historic site; detention center;
Location	San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, Pacific States Region
Inception	28 April 1942;
Date of official closure	13 October 1942;
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English: Tanforan Assembly Center — used for Japanese American segregation in 1942, in San Bruno, San Mateo County, California.

The Tanforan Racetrack horse stalls were minimally converted into human barracks, while the local Japanese American citizens were processed for deportation to concentration—internment camps in remote areas of the U.S.
California Historical Landmark No. 934.09 — Tanforan Assembly Center

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in the United States. Its reference number is

934.

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"Table 1. Wartime Properties Identified in Public Law 102-248" (PART 1), from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 15 crop).jpg 2,188 × 2,704; 647 KB
"Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers map, from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 118 crop) (cropped).jpg 1,249 × 1,827; 115 KB
"Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers map, from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 118 crop).jpg 2,001 × 2,501; 281 KB
Congressional Record - 2016-06-09.pdf 1,275 × 1,650, 240 pages; 2.45 MB
Congressional Record - 2017-02-01.pdf 1,275 × 1,650, 149 pages; 1.67 MB

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