Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
BUS FRON DOWNTOWN LA: Bus transportation from Downtown Los Angeles still available, but seats are going fast. LOS ANGELES — Maytha Alhassen, a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and a contributing author to I Speak For Myself: American Women on Being Muslim, will be a featured speaker... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — The Manzanar Committee wishes to express its deepest sympathies to the family of Professor Emeritus of Education and former Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (AASC), Don T. Nakanishi, 66, who died on March 21. Nakanishi was born and raised in East Los Angeles where he attended Roosevelt High School.... Continue Reading →
We’re catching up on posting long overdue video... Video from the 2014 and 2015 Manzanar Pilgrimage and Manzanar At Dusk programs are now available in full 1080p high definition. The 2014 (45th Annual) Manzanar Pilgrimage featured performances by UCLA Kyodo Taiko, presentation of the 2014 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Award to former Manzanar incarceree Mas Okui... Continue Reading →
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 →
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