2013 Manzanar At Dusk – In Photographs
May 3, 2013 2 Comments
Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee
44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage: In Photographs
May 2, 2013 1 Comment
Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee
By all accounts, this year’s Pilgrimage was a huge success. The numbers aren’t in yet, but initial estimates put the crowd anywhere from 1,400 to 1,700 people.
We’ll have more on the Pilgrimage and the Manzanar At Dusk program in the coming days and weeks. But for now, here is our first photo essay on the Pilgrimage (photos from the 2013 Manzanar At Dusk program will be published separately).
“Speaking Of Camp” Event – Photos, Video
March 13, 2013 Leave a comment
This article was originally published on December 16, 2012. It has been updated to include video from the event.
Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II are shown here telling their
stories at Speaking Of Camp, an event held at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Center in Los Angeles’ Little Toyko, on December 1, 2012.
(click above to view larger image)
Photo: Alan Broch
Co-sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, the event was part of an ongoing effort to capture the significance of individual stories of those who came through the World War II camp experience.
Videographers also recorded incarceree stories and memories of their days behind the barbed wire.
The First Organized Manzanar Pilgrimage In 1969 – Photographs
March 12, 2013 Leave a comment
Pioneering attendees at the first organized Manzanar Pilgrimage, held on December 27, 1969, gathered around the Manzanar cemetery monument.
Photo: National Park Service/Evan Johnson Collection
Johnson donated his collection taken that day to the Manzanar National Historic Site.
“Regretfully, I have no other details of the participants or how this came about, but [that] our contingent was from U.C. Davis Asian American Studies Department, under the leadership of brilliant, inspiring and knowledgeable professor, Isao Fujimoto, still there after all these years,” Johnson wrote, in a letter that accompanied the film negatives.
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