These California farm families are preparing to evacuate to internment camps, as documented by photographer Dorothea Lange.

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May 9, 1942: These California farm families are preparing to evacuate to internment camps, as documented by photographer Dorothea Lange.

    Centerville, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry awaiting the evacuation buses which will take them to the Tanforan Assembly center along with 595 others evacuated from this district under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34. 05/09/1942

    Dorothea Lange, photographer. From the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.  You can find our past posts on Japanese American Internment & Relocation under the #Japanese American Internment tag.

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