![Detainees in their quarters at the Santa Anita Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California, 1942. The camp is a temporary detention facility for Japanese Americans excluded from the West Coast under a wartime presidential executive order. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/Getty Images)](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Japanese-Americans-Detainees-show-their-quarters-temporary-detention-facility-AMHP-Winter-23.jpg)
Detainees in their quarters at at the repurposed Santa Anita horse-racing track in Arcadia, California. (Mark Kauffman/Getty Images)
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Detainees in their quarters at at the repurposed Santa Anita horse-racing track in Arcadia, California. (Mark Kauffman/Getty Images)
Mark Kauffman/Getty Images