World War II Homefront Era: 1940s: Internment of 120,000 Persons of Japanese Ancestry
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Notice for Civilian Exclusion Order No. 20. April 24, 1942. Unknown artist. Poster. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.
This is a notice for the Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20. The Civilian Exclusion Order Number 20 was an explicit order instructing people of Japanese ancestry to register at a designated Civil Control Station which was located at the Japanese American Citizens’ League Auditorium in San Francisco, California. The registration of people of Japanese ancestry was in preparation to relocate this segment of American society to internment camps during World War II.