We are pleased to announce that the 6th annual Arnold Maeda Manzanar Pilgrimage Grant is open. The program provides a $1,000 Grant to encourage college students to research the activism and legacy of Arnold Maeda, and to reflect on what that legacy means today.
In April 1942, at the age of 15, Arnold and his parents were forcibly removed from their home and nursery business in Santa Monica to report to the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln Boulevard with only what they could carry, to board a bus to Manzanar. Arnold bitterly resented this treatment as a natural l-born U.S. citizen and became a charter member of the Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument Committee in 2010.
The monument, dedicated on April 27, 2017, at the very same corner Arnold was forced to board that bus, serves as both a reminder of what happened and as a warning that such an injustice should never be again perpetrated against any group, solely on the basis of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, race, or religion.
The Manzanar Pilgrimage is an annual event of speakers and cultural performers that takes place at the Manzanar National Historic Site in Independence, CA. Grant recipients will be awarded $1,000 to cover the cost of spending the weekend (April 24th to 26th) at Manzanar after planning and organizing the 57th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and Manzanar at Dusk program with the Manzanar Committee.
Learn more:2026 Information Packet
Applications deadline has been extended to February 6th
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