Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
Laura Ng has worked on archeology projects at Manzanar National Historic Site, and at the site of the Kooskia internment camp in Idaho. In this piece, she provides some insight into the role that archeology has played, and will continue to play, in the evolving interpretation of the history of the Japanese American confinement sites... Continue Reading →
Hank Umemoto, a former Manzanar incarceree, and author of Manzanar To Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker, wrote the following letter to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, regarding their proposed Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch, which would be built east of the... Continue Reading →
The following letter to the editor by playwright/poet and former Tule Lake incarceree Hiroshi Kashiwagi was submitted to the Herald and News, the daily newspaper in Klamath Falls, California, not far from the site of the former Tule Lake Segregation Center, in response to their story on the controversy about the proposed perimeter fence that... Continue Reading →
by James To On July 24, I attended a public meeting in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, sponsored by the National Park Service, to provide feedback on the development of the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. At the meeting, NPS staff updated the community on the status... Continue Reading →
by Fred Bradford Years ago, I would drive to Lone Pine on the Thursday before the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, which is always held on the last Saturday of April. The extra day would allow me to drive around the area and sight see. I rarely get that chance if I drive up on Friday. By... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On July 23, the Manzanar Committee announced its support of the Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force’s efforts to preserve, protect and interpret the history of Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, California. Historic Wintersburg’s history dates back to the late 1800’s, as an agricultural community that was once known as the “celery capital”... Continue Reading →
The following is a press release from the National Park Service. INDEPENDENCE, CA — Heavy summer rains the night of July 22-23, 2013, caused significant damage at Manzanar National Historic Site. Shepherd Creek on the north side of Manzanar, and Bairs Creek on the south, jumped their banks, flooding the auto tour road and burying... Continue Reading →
Over the last year, the Federal Aviation Administration has moved closer to building a fence to protect the airstrip at the site of the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument that would destroy the historic character of the site. The Tule Lake Committee has launched a petition... Continue Reading →
The following is a press release from the Los Angeles City Council; the Manzanar Committee called on the City Council to Declare the Tuna Canyon site as a Historic-Cultural Monument on June 8, 2013. See our statement, Manzanar Committee Calls On Los Angeles City Council To Designate Site of Tuna Canyon Detention Station As A... Continue Reading →
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