Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
PILGRIMAGE: Bus transportation still available from Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES — UCLA Kyodo Taiko will perform at the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, which is scheduled for 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 25, 2009, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, located on US Highway 395 in California’s Owens Valley,... Continue Reading →
PILGRIMAGE: Bus transportation from Los Angeles still available. LOS ANGELES — Ron Wakabayashi, Regional Director, United States Department of Justice Community Relations Service, will be the keynote speaker at the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, scheduled for noon PDT on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the Manzanar National Historic Site,... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Manzanar - Never Again, a short film by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, will be screened at the Manzanar At Dusk program, to be held on Saturday, April 25, 2009, at Lone Pine High School gymnasium, starting at 5:00 PM PDT. Manzanar At Dusk follows the traditional Manzanar Pilgrimage program, which... Continue Reading →
Updated details about the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage are available at:Ron Wakabayashi To Keynote 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage Ken Burns Short “Manzanar - Never Again” To Be Screened At Manzanar At Dusk Program LOS ANGELES — The 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, is scheduled for 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 25,... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On March 2, the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee announced that it has been selected as the recipient of a $5,000.00 grant from the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Community Outreach Program Fund, sponsored by the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center For Japanese Studies. This fund is designed to promote deeper... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On May 8, President Bush signed into law Senate Bill 2739, the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, which expanded the boundaries of the Minidoka Internment National Monument to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial commemorating the Japanese Americans of Bainbridge Island, Washington, who were the first to be forcibly removed from... Continue Reading →
MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, NEAR LONE PINE, CA — For thirty-nine years, the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage has brought a diversity of faces and voices together at the site of one of ten concentration camps that imprisoned over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II in what is commonly acknowledged as a gross violation... Continue Reading →
PILGRIMAGE: Manzanar At Dusk program to be held at Lone Pine High School auditorium; Seats still available on buses from Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES — UCLA Kyodo Taiko and the Grateful Crane Ensemble will perform at the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, which will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2008,... Continue Reading →
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