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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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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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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Williamson in background, Manzanar Relocation Center, California". Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar. Library of Congress...
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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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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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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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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (section Farewell to Manzanar)
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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