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...
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Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki...
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Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard") was a town in Inyo County, California, founded by water engineer and land developer George Chaffey. Most notably...
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up manzanar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Manzanar is a historic site of a former World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp Manzanar (apple...
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The Manzanar Fishing Club is a documentary film about a fishing club at the Manzanar Relocation Center. The documentary is about a fishing club at Manzanar...
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Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California". Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar. Library of Congress...
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The Manzanar Guayule Project began in April 1942, in the Manzanar internment camp. The objective of the project was to produce a domestic source of rubber...
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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...
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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (section Farewell to Manzanar)
America. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Farewell to Manzanar that narrates her personal experiences in World War II internment camps...
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many motels line the main road through town. The Manzanar National Historic Site (formerly the Manzanar War Relocation Center), a Japanese American internment...
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Gordon H. Sato (section The Manzanar Project)
States National Academy of Sciences. In the mid-1980s he established the Manzanar Project aimed at attacking the planet's most critical problems as poverty...
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Tōyō Miyatake (section Manzanar)
documenting the Japanese American people and the Japanese American internment at Manzanar during World War II. Miyatake was born in Kagawa, Shikoku, in Japan in...
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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...
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Houston and James D. Houston's book Farewell to Manzanar (1973) about Jeanne's experiences in the Manzanar War Relocation Center and her life after. It explores...
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Mary Nomura (redirect from Songbird of Manzanar)
incarcerated for her ancestry at the Manzanar concentration camp during World War II and became known as The songbird of Manzanar. Mary Kageyama was one of five...
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Tamiko Thiel (section Beyond Manzanar (2000))
many other exhibits, some of the most notable being her shows "Beyond Manzanar" (a piece about a World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp in...
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"troublemakers" from other relocation camps after problematic events such as the Manzanar riot. Some consider the camp illegal because it was not authorized by Executive...
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Harry Ueno (section Internment and Manzanar Riot)
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...
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Francisco Maritime Historic Sites Eugene O'Neill Fort Point John Muir Manzanar Memorials Port Chicago Naval Magazine Recreation Areas Golden Gate Santa...
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War Relocation Center, Wyoming Jerome War Relocation Center, Arkansas Manzanar War Relocation Center, California Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho...
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Tokyo Boyz (section Post-Manzanar History)
The Tokyo Boys was a Japanese American gang founded in Manzanar Concentration camp during World War II. They were split into three groups/ranks, The Kibei...
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Japanese at Pomona College and eventually began working at the Manzanar Relocation Center in Manzanar, California. After the end of World War II, DeForest returned...
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December 2007. Burton, Jeffery F. (1996). Three Farewells To Manzanar: The Archeology of Manzanar National Historic Site, California. Part 1: Chapters 1–14...
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would become his wife. Miyagi and his wife were later interned in the Manzanar Japanese-American internment camp at the onset of World War II. During...
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Japanese American women playing volleyball at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II in c. 1943...
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incarcerated at Manzanar with his parents and older sister. While at Manzanar, Chuman served as chief administrator at the Manzanar Hospital. In 1943...
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to internment camps. Hatsue and her family, the Imadas, are interned in Manzanar camp in California. Under some pressure from her mother, Hatsue breaks...
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teacher, activist and long-time chair of the Manzanar Committee, which established the annual Manzanar pilgrimage and obtained National Historic Site...
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Understand and Manzanar Paul Mitchell: additional drumming on Manzanar Produced by Rhett Davies Singles: Worlds Apart Straighter Line Manzanar. It's the name...
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recounted his time at Manzanar in an interview conducted by Richard Potashin as part of the Densho Digital Archive - Manzanar National Historical Site...
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