365 results for: Discrimination
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Japanese Americans registering for exclusion, Seattle, April 26, 1942
In this image Japanese American residents of Seattle are processed for exclusion at the civil control station, converted from an old theater, at 1319 Rainier Avenue. After Civilian Exclusion Order No. 17 was posted Japanese Americans were given one week to register and to prepare for departure. Those that failed to comply by remaining in the area after the appointed…
ID Number:PI28063
Date:1942
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"Evacuation sale" at Japanese store, Seattle, 1942
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration camps in Idaho and California…
ID Number:PI28065
Date:1942
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Jackson Studio store window after exclusion of Japanese Americans, Seattle, May 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28066
Date:1942
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Boarded up window displays on Jackson Street after forced removal of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28067
Date:1942
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Vacant stores after exclusion of Japanese Americans, Seattle, 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28068
Date:1942
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Vacant stores after exclusion of Japanese Americans, 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28069
Date:1942
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Boarded up storefronts on 6th Ave. S after forced removal of Japanese Americans, Seattle, June 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28071
Date:1942
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Boarded up storefronts in Chinatown - International District after forced removal of Japanese Americans, Seattle, June 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28074
Date:1942
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Closed businesses on S. Main St. after forced removal of Japanese Americans, Seattle, June 1942
The exclusion of Seattle's Japanese families by the federal government during World War II changed the city in numerous ways. Among the more obvious signs were the shuttered and boarded up Japanese businesses along Main, Jackson and upper King Streets. Many of the families who managed or worked in the stores and shops never returned to the city after they…
ID Number:PI28075
Date:1942
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Japanese American incarcerees preparing to leave the Puyallup Assembly Center for concentration camps, Puyallup, 1942
By August 1942, the United States Army was ready for the large scale removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans from Seattle, King County and the rest of western Washington state. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named "Camp Harmony," was a processing facility at the Puyallup Fairgrounds and accommodated 8,000 people at a time. In the rush to process so many…
ID Number:PI28078
Date:1942