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May 3, 2017
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The former stock yards at the Expo Center in north Portland are turned into the Portland Assembly
Center to round up Japanese Americans for incarceration in 1942. Photo courtesy of the Oregon
Historical Society.
Return and Remembrance
Pilgrimage marks
injustice 75 years ago
The community is invited to a special ceremony
this weekend at the Portland Expo Center to hon-
or Japanese-Americans from the Portland area who
were forced out of their homes and businesses and
driven away by wartime hysteria and racism 75
years ago.
On May 6, 1942, Portland was empty of Japanese
Americans by military decree. Families were uproot-
ed, property sold, and local businesses closed. Under
Executive Order 9066, 3,700 people of Japanese de-
scent were moved into the former animal stalls of the
Pacific International Livestock and Exposition Cen-
ter. Four months later, they joined 120,000 other Jap-
anese Americans in 10 hastily erected concentration
camps across the United States.
The Oregon Nikkei Endowment and The Portland
Japanese-American Citizens League present
Return and Remembrance, a Pilgrimage to the
Portland Assembly Center to honor the victims of this
unjust incarceration. The event will be held on Satur-
day, May 6 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Exhibit Hall A of
the Portland Expo Center in north Portland.
For more information or to RSVP, email info@or-
egonnikkei.org or call 503-224-1458.