Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969 and the more recent Manzanar At Dusk program
The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance 2019 was held on February 16, 2019, at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. The George & Sakaye Aratani Central Hall at JANM was filled to capacity once again for the annual Day of Remembrance, held to commemtorate the signing of Executive Order 9066, which... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Behind Barbed Wire: Keeping Children Safe and Families Together is the theme for the Los Angeles Day of Remembrance (DOR) 2019, a program supporting civil rights for everyone, scheduled for Saturday, February 16, 2019, from 2:00 - 4:00 PM at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. The... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Day of Remembrance 2019, a program supporting civil rights for everyone, will be held on Saturday, February 16, 2019, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. The Day of Remembrance is held annually to commemorate President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On February 4, the Manzanar Committee, sponsors of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969, the accompanying Manzanar At Dusk program since 1997, and the new project targeting college students, Katari, announced the launch of their new web site, https://manzanarcommittee.org. The new web site combines their obsolete web site and their blog into... Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: The following is the third installment of reflection pieces written by our students who visited the Manzanar National Historic Site back in November 2018, part of a two-day, interactive, intensive, placed-based learning experience about Japanese American Incarceration. This installment features thoughts from three of our students. To learn more about this critical educational... Continue Reading →
The following is a press release from the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association, a non-profit partner of the Manzanar National Historic Site. RE-OPENING: Manzanar National Historic Site to re-open January 18-21 and January 25-27 only. Manzanar National Historic Site’s non-profit partner, the Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association (ESIA), has generously donated funds to the National Park Service... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On December 8, the Manzanar Committee, sponsors of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and Manzanar At Dusk events, denounced the publication of a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times that attempted to justify the forced removal and unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese/Japanese Americans in American concentration camps and other... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — The Manzanar Committee will host a book signing event featuring Dr. Arthur A. Hansen, one of the leading scholars studying the unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese/Japanese Americans during World War II, who will talk about his new book, Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social... Continue Reading →
During the weekend of November 3-4, 2018, the Manzanar Committee, in partnership with the National Park Service staff at Manzanar National Historic Site, hosted eight students from the Nikkei Student Unions at California State University, Fullerton, California State University, Long Beach, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego in... Continue Reading →
