Poster announcing military evacuation of Japanese-Americans, 1942
From LoC: "Civilian exclusion order #5, posted at First and Front streets, directing removal by April 7 of persons of Japanese ancestry, from the first San Francisco section to be affected by evacuation."
This poster was displayed in San Francisco in April 1942 to inform Japanese-Americans that they would be evacuated from the area by the U.S. military.
![Civilian exclusion order #5 A wartime relocation poster on a wall. There are three pieces of it. It is full of information.](https://dev.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files//styles/anchor_images/public/1942%20japan%20removal%20poster.jpg?itok=niy3WWE0)
Civilian exclusion order #5, posted at First and Front streets, directing removal by April 7 of persons of Japanese ancestry, from the first San Francisco section to be affected by evacuation. San Francisco California, 1942. April. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001705937/.
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