Organizers said the gathering's intent was to right a wrong. Mixed emotions filled the air inside the Stockton Assembly Center.
Like most Japanese Americans, Allyson Aranda's grandparents complied with those orders.
Aranda grew up knowing their hardship.
The Stockton Assembly Center was one of 13 temporary detention sites built in California. It housed an estimated 4,200 Japanese Americans from San Joaquin County before they were sent to internment camps.
"When Executive Order 9066 was issued, Dad had to hurry and sell the land," she said.
"It's kind of painful in a way that," she said. "It's painful for me to think about what pain they went through."
Wong hopes that sharing her family's story can stop history from repeating itself.
In total, 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in internment camps. It would take nearly 50 years for the U.S. to formally apologize when President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
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