#0934 Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans - Stockton Assembly Center

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#0934 Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans - Stockton Assembly Center

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Near main entrance gates to San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, Airport Way, Stockton

37.938094,-121.268445

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State plaque

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Stockton Assembly Center

Here, within the confines of San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, enclosed by barbed wire and housed in temporary barracks, 4,217 San Joaquin County residents of Japanese ancestry, predominately American citizens, were interned from May 10 to October 17, 1942 under Executive Order 9066. May such usurpation of civil, social, and economic rights, without specific charges or trial, never again occur.

Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Japanese American Community of San Joaquin County, May 12, 1984.

Registered 5/13/1980

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