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2. Manzanar - Wikipedia

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   The Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States, was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the ten former camp sites.

3. List of inmates of Manzanar - Wikipedia

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   Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey welcoming crowd at 33rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 27, 2002. 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 (1914–1976), a Nisei labor activist. Paul Bannai (1920–2019), an ...

4. Manzanar, California - Wikipedia

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   Manzanar, California. /  36.74000°N 118.08056°W  / 36.74000; -118.08056. Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard") was a town in Inyo County, California, founded by water engineer and land developer George Chaffey. [ 1] Most notably, Manzanar is known for its role in the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

5. List of national historic sites and historical parks of the ...

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   Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, was the first national historic site to be established in the U.S. National Historic Site (NHS) and National Historical Park (NHP) are designations for officially recognized areas of nationally historic significance in the United States. They are usually owned and managed by the ...

6. Sue Kunitomi Embrey - Wikipedia

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   Teacher and activist. Known for. Co-chaired the Manzanar Committee. Sue Kunitomi Embrey (January 6, 1923–May 15, 2006) was an American teacher, activist and long-time chair of the Manzanar Committee, which established the annual Manzanar pilgrimage and obtained National Historic Site status for the former concentration camp .

7. Farewell to Manzanar - Wikipedia

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   Farewell to Manzanar

8. Portal : National Register of Historic Places/Portal article/9

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   Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately 230 miles (370.1 km) northeast of Los Angeles.

9. Rose Ochi - Wikipedia

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   Takayo " Rose " Matsui Ochi (December 15, 1938 – December 13, 2020) was a Japanese-American attorney and civil rights activist notable for fighting for the approval of the Manzanar to become a National Historic Site and being the first Asian American woman to be appointed at the United States Assistant Attorney General level by President Bill ...