What does it mean to demonize Arab and Muslim Americans?
What is our history?
March 30, 1942 8th - Franklin St Oakland Japanese - owned Grocery Store. It has been closed. Owner voluntarily evacuated at the last moment before the "Freezing order" to Fresno where he has relatives. He is U C graduate, born in California. I asked him "who put up that sign?" He said "a sign painter but I paid for it, the day after Pearl Harbor"
- Dorothea Lange
Another significant historical analogy connected by this image and photographer: the Great Depression.
Dorothea Lange was hired by the federal government to document and publicize the plight of the rural poor during the Great Depression.
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