• Crossroads General Store Dorothea Lange, Crossroads General Store, circa 1938. © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.
  • Roy De Forest, Wise Horse's Dream, 1972 [detail]. Art © Estate of Roy De Forest/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
  • Imperial Council of San Francisco, Pin for the Widow Norton, Absolute Empress I, José, n.d. Mixed media. Collection of the Imperial Council of San Francisco, courtesy of John Carrillo and Misty Blue
  • Photo: Shaun Roberts
  • Photo: Odell Hussey Photography
  • Bees: Tiny Insect, Big Impact, at the Oakland Museum of California.Honey bees (Apis mellifera) pollinate an artichoke flower. Photo: Rollin Coville.

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Sent Away but Not Forgotten

Posted by Claudia Leung on15Feb

When OMCA reinstalled its Gallery of California History five years ago, the Sent Away exhibit concerning the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, where over seven thousand Japanese Americans were held before being sent to internment camps, struck a deep chord for many visitors. It had particular resonance for those of Japanese ancestry, many of whom had firsthand knowledge of this dark moment in our history.

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