FBI agents arrest Japanese males, including many community and religious leaders, in the first round of forced evacuations from Terminal Island following the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor.
Japanese, German, and Italian immigrant and alien prisoners awaiting relocation or imprisonment in 1941. These individuals were considered to pose a threat to U.S. security during World War Two.
Japanese immigrants and aliens register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940 at the United States Post Office at 660 E. 22nd Street in downtown Los Angeles.
Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) prepare to board deportation buses at the Elysian Park bus depot in Los Angeles, California.
Photographed left to right are Karl Holton, Director of the California Youth Authority Harold Slane Mrs. Lowell Bigelow Alan Cranston, and Manuel Ruiz, Jr., attorney.