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BART Unveils Photo Exhibit Remembering Japanese Internment at Tanforan
An exhibit featuring photos chronicling the internment of Japanese Americans at the Tanforan Assembly Center during World War II—before it became the mall—will be on display throughout the month of May at the San Bruno BART station.
During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans were —when it was still being used a race track.
They lived there for as long as six months while the more permanent internment camps were being built.
Beginning today, BART will unveil a photo exhibit at its San Bruno station remembering the Japanese Americans who endured the internment. The photos are from Dorothea Lange and Sacramento Bee photographer Paul Kitagaki Jr., whose father, aunt and grandparents were taken to the assembly center before being relocated to Utah, according to Asian American Journalists Association Photographers.
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The exhibit is called “They wore their best…The Japanese-American Evacuation and After.”
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