Notice posted to warn Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and aliens that they must remove from area no. 30 by February 15, 1942. Notice was sponsored by the Department of Defense and Attorney General Francis Biddle.
Japanese immigrants and aliens queue up to register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940 at the United States Post Office at 22nd and San Pedro Street.
After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.