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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...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California". Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar. Library of Congress...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    photographs from his 1943–1944 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley, Inyo County, California. The book...
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    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. The Dalton Wells CCC camp (also known as Camp DG-32) was one of four...
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    removed with her family from their Los Angeles home and placed in the Manzanar War Relocation camp in 1942. She was photographed by Ansel Adams in both...
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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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  • 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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  • Fukuhara was interned with his parents, who were Japanese immigrants, at the Manzanar internment camp in California's Owens Valley during World War II following...
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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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    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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  • 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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    incarcerated at Manzanar. Lazo was so outraged that he joined friends on a train that took hundreds to Manzanar in May 1942. Manzanar officials never...
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    history of the Japanese people. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar devoted a chapter to the concept to explain why the Japanese Americans...
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  • Los Angeles in the 1930s. While incarcerated at Manzanar, Mori was the first female editor of the Manzanar Free Press newspaper. Mori was born on February...
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  • the U.S. Farewell to Manzanar (1976) Made-for-television adaptation of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's memoirs of her time in the Manzanar internment camp Forgotten...
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  • sent to the Manzanar concentration camp in California as a result of Executive Order 9066. Nakamura and her family were released from Manzanar to go live...
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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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