Temporary Detention: A New Multimedia Project About “Assembly Centers”
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Japanese American National Museum100 N. Central Ave. Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Date: May 10, 2025
Time: 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Commemorate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the launch of the new multimedia project, Temporary Detention: A Guide to the Forced “Assembly Centers.” The website provides a past-and-present look at the fifteen temporary detention centers and the Owens Valley “Reception Center” operated by the US Army’s Western Civil Control Administration during World War II. Euphemistically called “Assembly Centers” these hastily-built detention centers imprisoned approximately 92,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry as the ten concentration camps were being built.
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