During World War II, the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds served as one of 15 temporary assembly centers established under Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. From May 7 through August 24, 1942, the U.S. Army confined 5,514 persons of Japanese ancestry at this site, most of them American citizens. In August 1942, most of the detainees were relocated to Heart Mountain, Wyoming, one of 10 detention camps that together confined 120,000 people without due process of law, charges or trial, or establishment of guilt, as a result of hysteria and racism.

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