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
LOS ANGELES — On March 20, the Manzanar Committee denounced the racism, xenophobia and violent attacks targeting Asians/Asian Americans resulting from COVID-19 virus-related hysteria, much of it fueled by President Donald Trump referring to the virus as the “China Virus” or the “Chinese Virus,” and his staff referring to it as the “Kung Flu,” despite... Continue Reading →
The 2020 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance, held at the Japanese American National Museum, has come and gone. The Manzanar Committee is one of the event’s co-sponsors each year. Here is a relative handful of photographs from the program. 2020 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance 26 photos.©2020 Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee. All rights reserved. Duplication prohibited... Continue Reading →
UPDATE: Deadline for submissions extended to April 24, 2020. For more details, please see Deadline Extended for Manzanar Committee’s Fifth Annual Student Awards Program. LOS ANGELES — On February 3, the Manzanar Committee, sponsors of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and Manzanar At Dusk program, along with the youth education project, Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories... Continue Reading →
The Manzanar Committee is a proud partner/endorsing organization of Tsuru for Solidarity. Tsuru for Solidarity is working to end detention sites and support front-line immigrant and refugee communities who are experiencing injustice and oppression under the current U.S. administration. We are an all-volunteer organization. Please join us and support our second $25,000 match, thanks to... Continue Reading →
The following is an announcement from the National Park Service and the Northwest Youth Corporation. The National Park Service, in conjunction with the Northwest Youth Corporation, is seeking applicants for a summer intern position at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California’s Owens Valley. The Visitor Services Intern greets visitors on-site, orients the visitor to... 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 →
LOS ANGELES — On June 27, the Manzanar Committee repudiated the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States in Trump v. Hawai’i, lifting the injunction on President Donald Trump’s travel ban. “We are outraged by the decision of the Supreme Court,” said Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey. “This travel ban is fundamentally unconstitutional,... Continue Reading →
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 →
As the movement for redress and reparations for the more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated or otherwise forcibly removed from the West Coast during World War II began to gain steam in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, different views on how to win redress emerged. Some might say that... Continue Reading →
