todaysdocument: A young woman of Japanese ancestry arrives at the Poston incarceration camp, 5/17/19
todaysdocument: A young woman of Japanese ancestry arrives at the Poston incarceration camp, 5/17/1942. This camp was built on the land of the Colorado River Indian Tribes over the objection of the Tribal Council, who did not want to perpetrate the same injustices they faced. Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989Image description: A young woman using crutches sits on the edge of the bed of an ambulance, which really just looks like a large van with a mattress in it. It is nighttime. A man is standing outside the ambulance. -- source link