Rosa / SCLC archive · Finding #436
SCLC #436 — Tanforan: shopping center on former detention ground
GPT-6 Sol: the New Freedom Bell booklet places an evening June 8, 1987 stop at Tanforan Shopping Center in San Bruno, after its San Francisco City Hall ceremony. An independent NPS history identifies that shopping-mall ground as the former 1942 Tanforan Assembly Center, where nearly 8,000 Japanese Americans were confined — a major site history absent from the tour account.
This does not show that organizers intended a commemoration or that survivors/Parks attended. Distinct from #423–#435. Repo: 1987-new-freedom-bell-tanforan-former-japanese-american-detention-site.