The next year, she co-founded the Manzanar Committee, and she became a main organizer of the pilgrimage. She led campaigns to make Manzanar a state and national historical landmark, and then a ...

MANZANAR, Calif. — Guard Tower No. 8 has returned to Manzanar, a vivid symbol of what the place was and what it was not. Above all, it shows that living here, for Japanese American families, was ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

A solar array, though near the Manzanar internment camp, would not distract visually from or damage the sense of desolation that is part and parcel of the historic site.

Farewell to Manzanar is regularly assigned to high school and college classes. Other books she has written include The Legend of Fire Horse Woman, and a nonfiction book, Don’t Cry, It’s Only ...

The MHA has also helped market the film “Remmebering Manzanar.” Incidentally, there is a Manzanar Interpretive Center onsite that’s open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily.

If Manzanar is the best known, that’s because Ansel Adams went there. He visited four times in 1943, at the invitation of the camp director, a friend, to take photographs.