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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 →
Editor’s Note: We’re more than a little late with this, we know, but we wanted to get this out because it is one of the unknown stories from Manzanar...the fact that research was done behind the barbed wire by Japanese American scientists who, despite being unjustly incaracerated by their own government, made positive contributions to... 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 →
by Tom Leatherman When I came to Manzanar National Historic Site in 2005, I thought I was going to work at a site which preserved the history of a World War II Japanese American internment camp. It turned out to be so much more. I was quickly introduced to the talented and dedicated staff and... 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 →
As stated in an earlier story here on our web site, Reflections on the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, our Manzanar At Dusk program was founded by Jenni Kuida and Ayako Hagihara back in 1997 with the program first being held around a camp fire at a camp just west of Independence, which is the first... Continue Reading →
For the past two years, the Florin chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League has brought a diverse group of people to the Manzanar Pilgrimage, the trip being coordinated by Andy Noguchi. After they returned home, Andy, his daughter Annie Kim Noguchi, former Manzanar prisoner Carol Hironaka, and Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Ranger Richard... Continue Reading →
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