A Deadly Uprising: Manzanar National Historic Site

During World War II, the United States government rounded up over 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of whom were U.S. citizens, and sent them to remote incarceration camps across the western United States for suspected disloyalty. One of those camps was Manzanar, located in the harsh desert of eastern California. When a popular community leader was arrested without explanation, thousands of incarcerated residents gathered in protest, sparking what we now know as the Manzanar Uprising, which left two people dead and changed the course of history.

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Sources

Remembering the Manzanar Riot - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

THE NATIONAL PARKS | Manzanar: "Never Again" | PBS

Amazon.com: Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster (Nikkei in the Americas)

Amazon.com: Farewell to Manzanar: A Powerful Memoir of Growing Up in a Japanese Incarceration Camp: 9781328742117

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