AANHPI History Calendar

· Owens Valley, California

Manzanar Opens as First WRA Camp

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The first Japanese Americans-volunteers from Los Angeles, soon followed by families removed from Bainbridge Island-arrived at Manzanar in California's Owens Valley, the first War Relocation Authority camp to open. (Shares Mar 21 with Public Law 503.)

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • incarceration
Event type
  • achievement/first
  • founding

Sources

Also on March 21

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Public Law 503 Enacted

Congress passed Public Law 503, making it a federal crime to violate military exclusion orders and giving legal force to the removal authorized by Executive Order 9066. (Shares Mar 21 with the opening of Manzanar.)