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Manzanar Commitee Lauds Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga With Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award On July 17, 2011

July 19, 2011 4 Comments

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (center), shown here with Manzanar Committee Co-Chairs Kerry Cababa (left) and Bruce Embrey (right), received the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award on July 17, 2011 in Gardena, California.
Photo: Gann Matsuda

GARDENA, CA — At the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30, 2011, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, one of the seminal figures in the Japanese American community’s fight for redress and reparations, was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.

The award is named after the late chair of the Manzanar Committee who was one of the founders of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and was the driving force behind the creation of the Manzanar National Historic Site.

But Herzig-Yoshinaga, now 87 years old, was unable to attend the event, which is held at the Manzanar National Historic Site, approximately 230 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Read more of this post

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Mako Nakagawa To Keynote 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage

March 21, 2011 8 Comments

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PILGRIMAGE: Bus Transportation Available From Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Mako Nakagawa, the primary author of the Power of Words resolution, passed in July 2010 by the National Council of the Japanese American Citizens League, will be the keynote speaker at the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, scheduled for noon PDT on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at the US Highway 395 in California’s Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine and Independence, approximately 230 miles north of Los Angeles (see map below).

Mako Nakagawa of Seattle, Washington, will
keynote the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
on April 30, 2011.
Photo: Mako Nakagawa

Each year, over 1,000 people from diverse backgrounds, including students, teachers, community members, clergy and former internees attend the Pilgrimage, which commemorates the unjust imprisonment of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in ten American concentration camps located in the most desolate, isolated regions of the United States. Manzanar was the first of these camps to be established.

Nakagawa, 74, was born in Seattle, Washington. During World War II, she was incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center in Washington, then at the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho, and then at the Crystal City internment camp in Texas. Read more of this post

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Sue Kunitomi Embrey: Concentration Camps, Not Relocation Centers

October 21, 2010 8 Comments

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by Bruce Embrey

To download a copy of this paper, click on the image above.

The following paper, Concentration Camps, Not Relocation Centers, written by Sue Kunitomi Embrey, grew out of a panel discussion held at California State University, Fullerton, on March 25, 1976. It represents one of the earliest efforts of the Manzanar Committee to educate the broader public about the incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry.

As its title succinctly states, it is an effort to clarify the nature of the War Relocation Authority camps where Americans of Japanese ancestry were unjustly imprisoned during World War II. Read more of this post

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Bill Michael’s Long-Term Commitment To Manzanar Recognized With Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

May 13, 2010 2 Comments

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Bill Michael (left) receives the 2010 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy
Award from Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Kerry Cababa (right)
at the 41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 24, 2010.
Photo: Gann Matsuda

by Gann Matsuda

MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, NEAR INDEPENDENCE, CA — Starting in 2009, the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, which sponsors the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and Manzanar At Dusk programs, began honoring individuals with the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award, named after the late chair of the Manzanar Committee who was one of the founders of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and was the driving force behind the creation of the Manzanar National Historic Site. Read more of this post

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Manzanar Committee Statement On The Passing of Florin JACL Leader Bob Uyeyama

May 3, 2010 1 Comment

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Bob Uyeyama
Photo: Gann Matsuda

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee extends its deepest sympathies to the family of Bob Uyeyama, 75, of Elk Grove, California, who passed away on April 24, 2010 while attending the Florin Japanese American Citizens League’s (JACL) trip to the 41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage.

Uyeyama, who was imprisoned at the Rohwer and Jerome concentration camps in Arkansas during World War II, was helping guide a walking tour prior to the start of the Pilgrimage. He was sharing his recollections of his time in camp at Block 14, located near the Interpretive Center at the Manzanar National Historic Site, when he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. Read more of this post

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41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage Highlights the Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Struggle

April 30, 2010 16 Comments

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Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey
welcomes the crowd at the 41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
on April 24, 2010.
Photo: Gann Matsuda

MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE AND LOS ANGELES — 68 years have passed since Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, sending over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents on the West Coast into American concentration camps during World War II.

No charges were filed against these people. No trials were held. Despite that, they were imprisoned behind barbed wire for more than three years in some of the most desolate parts of the United States, forced to endure extreme weather and other harsh conditions. Read more of this post

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Manzanar: “Never Again” Released – Video by Ken Burns: Watch It Here!

July 18, 2009 34 Comments

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Ken Burns
Photo: PBS

Manzanar: “Never Again,” a short film by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, has been released by WETA-TV (Public Television in Washington, DC) and Florentine Films. The mini-documentary is one of five such films produced by WETA and Florentine Films as part of their Untold Stories project.

Manzanar: “Never Again” was shown at a preview screening at the Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History in Lone Pine, California on April 24, 2009. It was also screened at the Manzanar At Dusk program on April 25, 2009, following the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, held earlier that day at the Manzanar National Historic Site. Read more of this post

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Tak Yamamoto Receives Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

May 20, 2009

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Long-time Manzanar Committee member Tak Yamamoto (second from left)
received the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award at the 40th Annual
Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 25, 2009.
Photo: Gann Matsuda

MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, NEAR INDEPENDENCE, CA — To most in attendance at the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, it was probably just another award, like so many that are handed out at community events. But a closer look at the affable recipient tells a very different story.

On April 25, 2009, during the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, the Manzanar Committee honored long-time Committee member Tak Yamamoto as their first recipient of the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy (Baka Guts) Award. Read more of this post

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Manzanar Commitee Lauds Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga With Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award On July 17, 2011

Mako Nakagawa To Keynote 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage

Sue Kunitomi Embrey: Concentration Camps, Not Relocation Centers

Bill Michael’s Long-Term Commitment To Manzanar Recognized With Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

Manzanar Committee Statement On The Passing of Florin JACL Leader Bob Uyeyama

41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage Highlights the Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Struggle

Manzanar: “Never Again” Released – Video by Ken Burns: Watch It Here!

Tak Yamamoto Receives Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award

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