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Stockton Assembly Center

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Within the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, enclosed by barbed wire and housed in temporary barracks, 4,217 San Joaquin County residents of Japanese ancestry, predominately American citizens, were interned from May 10 to October 17, 1942 under Executive Order 9066, a usurpation of civil, social, and economic rights without specific charges or trial.
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