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Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to ...
Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard") was a town in Inyo County, California, founded by water engineer and land developer George Chaffey. [1] Most notably, Manzanar is known for its role in the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey welcoming crowd at 33rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 27, 2002. This is a list of inmates of Manzanar, an American concentration camp in California used during World War II to hold people of Japanese descent. Koji Ariyoshi (1914–1976), a Nisei labor activist
The Manzanar Children's Village was an orphanage for children of Japanese ancestry incarcerated during World War II as a result of Executive Order 9066, under which President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States.
The involvement of Japanese Americans in the Manzanar Guayule Project is one of its main reasons behind its success. While the Department of Agriculture's main operation for mass producing guayule rubber was centered in Salinas, California; a collective of Japanese American scientists, in partnership with Cal Tech professor Robert Emerson, formed a separate rsearch team at Manzanar with the ...
Sue Kunitomi Embrey (January 6, 1923–May 15, 2006) was an American teacher, activist and long-time chair of the Manzanar Committee, which established the annual Manzanar pilgrimage and obtained National Historic Site status for the former concentration camp.
Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during, and following their relocation to the Manzanar internment camp due to the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World ...
Harry Yoshio Ueno (Japanese: 上野 義雄, 1907-2004) was a Japanese-American union leader who was interned in Manzanar Concentration Camp.He rose to prominence when he was arrested and removed from the camp after being accused of attacking the leader of the Japanese American Citizens League on the night of December 5, 1942.