LOS ANGELES — On June 25, the Manzanar Committee, sponsors of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969 and the more recent Manzanar At Dusk program for the last 21 years, denounced the policies and actions by President Donald Trump and his administration that have either separated children of immigrants entering the United States from their... Continue Reading →
49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage – Official Photo Essay
Shortly after the 49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 28, 2018, we published photographs from that event and the 2018 Manzanar At Dusk program that same evening. But here is our official photo essay from the Pilgrimage featuring photographs by professional photographers Geri Ferguson and Mark Kirchner. They have been shooting photos at Manzanar for... Continue Reading →
Exploring Manzanar: Then and Now
During a recent solo trip to the Manzanar National Historic Site in which I spent about 14 hours over roughly two days exploring the site by car and foot, it dawned on me that it was the first time that I was exploring the site in such a detailed fashion or spending as much time... Continue Reading →
49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/2018 Manzanar At Dusk: VIDEO
If you couldn’t make it to this year’s Manzanar Pilgrimage or Manzanar At Dusk events, or just want to experience them all over again, here are videos from both events! Included below is the full video of the 49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, along with clips of our speakers and of the performance by UCLA Kyodo... Continue Reading →
49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/2018 Manzanar At Dusk – In Photos
By all accounts, the 49th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and the 2018 Manzanar At Dusk program were a great success. Much of the credit for that goes to those of you who attended and participated. Thank you! We’re expecting to have a professional photo essay coming later this month, but for now, here are photo essays... Continue Reading →
Manzanar To Host Pilgrimage Weekend Events, April 27-29, 2018
The following is a press release from the National Park Service. INDEPENDENCE, CA — Manzanar National Historic Site invites visitors to participate in a weekend of special events in conjunction with the Manzanar Committee’s 49th Annual Pilgrimage. All are welcome and the events are free. This year’s Pilgrimage coincides with the 30th anniversary of the... Continue Reading →
Manzanar: One Weekend, One Incredible Experience
by Erica Wei Leading up to the weekend of the Keeping Japanese American Incarceration Stories Alive trip to the Manzanar National Historic Site, I was actually very reluctant about going. I thought about dropping from participating several times. This was two weeks before final exams and it was one of the last weekends I could... Continue Reading →
Two Reflections on Visiting The Manzanar National Historic Site
Editor’s Note: Moet Kurakata and Lauren Matsumoto were participants in the Manzanar Committee’s pilot project, Keeping Japanese American Incarceration Stories Alive, which took a group of college students to the Manzanar National Historic Site for a two-day, intensive, placed-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World... Continue Reading →
2018 Manzanar At Dusk Will Connect The Past With The Present
LOS ANGELES — Sharing stories and experiences from the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II and connecting this history to present-day issues will be the focus of the 2018 Manzanar At Dusk program, sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, scheduled from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Saturday, April 28,... Continue Reading →
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