MANZANAR, Calif. — Guard Tower No. 8 has returned to Manzanar, a vivid symbol of what the place was and what it was not. Above all, it shows that living here, for Japanese American families, was not ...
The drive from the San Francisco Bay Area to Manzanar, the former Japanese-American internment camp in California's remote Eastern Sierra region, takes about seven hours. There is no other way to get ...
Dan Kwong stands on the pitcher's mound at the restored baseball field at Manzanar National Historic Site, where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. As millions cheered Shohei ...
Over 105,000 people paid a visit to Manzanar National Historic Site in Inyo County in 2016, which broke their previous record of 95,000, set in 2015. The Manzanar Historic Site was established by ...
In the closing days of World War II, a Japanese American set out with other men from the infamous internment camp at Manzanar on a trip to the mountains, where he went off on his own to paint a ...
"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first of ...
SANTA MONICA — In the closing days of World War II, a Japanese American set out with other men from the infamous internment camp at Manzanar on a trip to the mountains, where he went off on his own to ...
In February, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that led to the forced removal of some 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes. They were sent to live in rural ...
When I arrived in Lone Pine, that sweet little town at the foot of the Sierra Nevadas, I planned to make a documentary about mountain climbing. I would try to climb Mt. Whitney, and I would do it ...