C—1942 The government puts over 4,000 Portlanders of Japanese descent into cattle pens 5 miles from this street. Then they are forced onto trains and into prison camps inland. Two shipyards open in the area and hire workers nationwide, including over 4,000 Black people. White residents here and citywide refuse them as neighbors. Instead, the government quickly builds the town of Vanport to house them. Next to the cattle pens.
