Day of Remembrance observation at Salinas Rodeo Grounds

The Salinas Assembly Center was one of fifteen temporary detention centers (euphemistically called "assembly centers") administered by the Wartime Civil Control Administration. Most Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast were sent to one of these centers during the spring and summer of 1942 while the more permanent concentration camps were being prepared.
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Salinas_(detention_facility)/

Santa Cruz County History - Executive Order 9066 and the Residents of Santa Cruz County
Salinas Assembly Center and Poston Relocation Center
http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/196/

A History of Japanese Americans in California:
INCARCERATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II
http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views4e.htm

Internment of Japanese Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

Map of World War II Japanese American internment camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_World_War_II_Japanese_American_internment_camps.png

Day of Remembrance event in Salinas hosted by Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL

Please see flyers below for event details ...

1:00 PM: Memorial Garden and Monument Visitation
Location: Salinas Community Center at 940 North Main Street in Salinas

1:20 - 3:30 PM
Program in the Santa Lucia Room (upstairs)
Salinas Community Center / Millennium High School
Sherwood Community Center

Watsonville-Santa Cruz Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League
http://watsonvillesantacruzjacl.org/