Following President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, Japanese Americans, most of them United States citizens, were interned. This site became a temporary detention center that incarcerated 3,699 innocent men, women and children from April 30th to August 12th, 1942. From the Turlock Assembly Center, the internees were relocated to the Gila River Internment Camp in the Arizona desert, where they remained until the end of WWII. President Reagan later sought to address this betrayal by issuing House Resolution 442 on August 10, 1988, and the history of these uprooted evacuees underscores the need to learn from the past and protect civil liberties for future generations.