Assembly Hall, East Face of the Sierra Nevada, with Monument shown in the bottom picture, Manzanar N
Assembly Hall, East Face of the Sierra Nevada, with Monument shown in the bottom picture, Manzanar National Historical Site, California, 2014.Today marks a day of infamy, the 75th Anniversary of the day the edict “resettling” Japanese heritage people, including those born in the US and thus birthright citizens, living on the West Coast (though not those in Hawaii by and large!) at a series of concentration camps, many of them located in inhospitable environments. The assembly hall, now used as a small museum for the Manzanar National Historical Site, is one of the few structures left standing in the concentration camp in Inyo County established for Japanese heritage residents of the US west coast. Manzanar is probably the best known of these concentration camps, and it housed mostly Japanese heritage people from Southern California. At the foot of the high Sierra Nevada mountains, the isolated site is a beautiful one to drive by but arid and subject to climatic extremes. Today, as in 1942, most of the land nearby is fallow or used for grazing. -- source link
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