Before the Evacuation

San Francisco, California. Flag of allegiance pledge at Raphael Weill Public School. Geary and Buchanan Streets. Children in families of Japanese ancestry were evacuated with their parents and will be housed for the duration at War Relocation Authority centers where facilities will be provided for them to continue their education.


See Gordon and Okihiro, Impounded,
for further information.

 

 


 
 

Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1942,
U.S. National Archives, image #536053. 



 

 

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