Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
It took time and a good deal of work, but we’ve finally converted video shot on tape that wasn’t in the greatest condition, so we can finally bring you video from the 1993 Manzanar Pilgrimage, the 2009 Manzanar Pilgrimage, and the 2009 Manzanar At Dusk program. The 1993 Manzanar Pilgrimage took place one year after... Continue Reading →
]LOS ANGELES — Dr. Cathy Irwin, author of Twice Orphaned: Voices from the Children’s Village of Manzanar, will be the keynote speaker at the 47th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, on Saturday, April 30, 2016, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, located on U.S. Highway 395 in California’s Owens Valley, between the... Continue Reading →
by Emily Zamora On April 2, 1942, Joyce Okazaki, then seven years old, arrived at the Manzanar camp with her family, where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. It was night, and there were no outside lights. Feeling scared, her family clung to one another as they made their way to what would... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On December 9, the Manzanar Committee repudiated comments by Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for barring all Muslims from entering the United States, and just one day later, stating that he might have supported the incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in American concentration camps during World War... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On November 18, the Manzanar Committee repudiated statements by David Bowers, Mayor, Roanoke, Virginia, in which he used the unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry as justification for his demand that Syrian refugees be denied asylum in the Roanoke area. In an official statement, Bowers said, “I’m reminded that... Continue Reading →
by Susan Muto Knight Among the many remarkable stories that have arisen from those who were incarcerated at Manzanar, the experiences of Takio “Tak” and Masako Muto (we called her, “Ma”) are among them. The photo at right is from their wedding in Los Angeles, taken just before World War II, a time that would... Continue Reading →
GARDENA, CA — During World War II, while incarcerated behind barbed wire at Manzanar, a handful of Japanese Americans— Dr. Morganlander Shimpe Nishimura, a nuclear physicist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Kenji Nozaki, a chemist at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Masuo Kodani, cytologist from UC Berkeley, Frank Hirasawa, organic chemist,... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — In a joint statement on August 3, the Manzanar Committee and the Owens Valley Committee (OVC) announced that two industrial-scale solar energy projects that would have had adverse impacts on California’s Owens Valley and the Manzanar National Historic Site have been delayed indefinitely. On March 12, 2015, the Los Angeles Department of... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On July 23, the Manzanar Committee denounced remarks by retired United States Army General and former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark, who called for the incarceration of “disloyal Americans” in camps eerily similar to the American concentration camps in which over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were unjustly incarcerated during World War... Continue Reading →
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