• The Merced Assembly Center, located in Merced, California, was one of sixteen temporary assembly centers hastily constructed in the wake of Executive Order...
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    Merced (/mɜːrˈsɛd/; Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As...
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    camp) Merced, California (Merced County Fairgrounds – Merced Assembly Center) Owens Valley, California (Manzanar – Owens Valley Reception Center) Parker...
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    485028 The Merced County Fairgrounds are home to the annual Merced County Fair, the county fair of Merced County, California. The Merced County Fair...
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    was 281,202. The county seat is Merced. The county is named after the Merced River. Merced County comprises the Merced, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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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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  • Merced College is a public community college in Merced, California. In 1961, the Merced High and Le Grand High School Districts petitioned the State Board...
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    Americans / Pomona Assembly Center is one of the places Japanese Americans were held during World War II. The Pomona Assembly Center was designated a California...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Pat Suzuki (category People from Merced County, California)
    internment camps. The Suzukis were sent to the Merced Assembly Center and later, the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado. The Suzuki family left Granada...
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    Americans / Santa Anita Assembly Center is one of the places Japanese Americans were held during World War II. The Santa Anita Assembly Center was designated a...
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  • Landmarks in Merced County, California. List of California Historical Landmarks National Register of Historic Places listings in Merced County, California...
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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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    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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    forcibly sent to the Merced Assembly Center in central California before being transferred to the Granada War Relocation Center, or Camp Amache, in Colorado...
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    Merced (north end) to Bakersfield (south end). The 2022 Business Plan focuses on developing an Interim Initial Operating Segment (IOS) between Merced...
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  • three years because they were of Japanese ancestry; first at the Merced Assembly Center, followed by Camp Amache. When they were released from the camps...
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  • time the problems of moving people from assembly centers on the West Coast into temporary relocation centers I’m sure got on his nerves very badly, and...
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    346 was issued to force the Japanese American citizens to live in assembly centers which were located in various open spaces such as fairgrounds and tracks...
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