• Mt. Williamson and cemetery monument

    Manzanar

    National Historic Site California

Public Law 109-441

Japanese American Confinement Sites Preservation
Congress established the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program (Public Law 109-441, 16 USC 461) for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. Confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. more...

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United States Bill of Rights.

Manzanar interned over 10,000 people behind barbed wire with no due process of law. Some internees found it ironic that the nearest town, six miles to the north, is named Independence.