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In popular culture
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Life in camp
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Works cited
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Establishment
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- Location
- Inyo County, California
- Added to NRHP
- July 30, 1976
- Area
- 814 acres (329 ha)
- Built
- 1942
- CHISL No.
- 850
- Designated CHISL
- 1972
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Overview
- Incarcerated during World War II Internment of Japanese Americans
- Concentration camps Concentration camp
- Japanese Americans
- Owens Valley
- Sierra Nevada
- Lone Pine Lone Pine, California
- Independence Independence, California
- National Park Service
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Executive Order 9066
- National Historic Site National Historic Site (United States)
- Owens Valley Paiute Mono people
Background
- Indigenous Americans Native Americans in the United States
- Long Valley Long Valley Caldera
- Owens Lake
- Inyo Mountains
- European American
- George Chaffey
- Southern California
- Southern Pacific Southern Pacific Transportation Company
- Two-room school Two-room schoolhouse
- Store Retail store
- City of Los Angeles
- Water rights
- Los Angeles Aqueduct
- United States Army
Establishment
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Japanese Problem
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Aliens Alien (law)
- Issei
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Secretary of War United States Secretary of War
- War Relocation Authority
- American citizens United States nationality law
- Wartime Civilian Control Administration
- Calvin E. Triggs Calvin E. Triggs?action=edit&redlink=1
- Works Progress Administration
- Second New Deal
- Stockton Stockton, California
- California
- Bainbridge Island
- Washington Washington (state)
Camp conditions and facilities
Life in camp
- Camp newspaper Manzanar
- Togo Tanaka
- Rationing
- Soy sauce
- Tofu
- Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
- Starchy Starch
- Vienna sausages Vienna sausage
- String beans Green bean
- Hot dogs Hot dog
- Apple sauce
- Harry Ueno
- Japanese American Citizens League
- Black marketing Black market
- Robert Redfield
- US$ United States dollar
- Wartime Civil Control Administration
- Mimeographed Mimeograph
- Rafu Shimpo
- Chiye Mori
- Baseball
- Football American football
- Basketball
- Soccer Association football
- Volleyball
- Softball
- Martial arts
- Lou Frizzell
- Mary Nomura
- Kabuki
Closure
Preservation and remembrance
- Dorothea Lange
- Non-profit
- Ondo Ondo (music)
- September 11 attacks
- American Muslims
- Post-9/11
- State of California
- California Historical Landmark
- Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
- National Register of Historic Places
- National Historic Landmark
- Mel Levine
- National Historic Site National Historic Sites (United States)
- George H. W. Bush
- Act of Congress
Monument facilities and setting
Reception of and discussion regarding Manzanar
- Executive Order 14253
- Secretary of the Interior United States Secretary of the Interior
- NBC News
- United States Government
- Internment camp
- Ellis Island
- American Jewish Committee
- Japanese American National Museum
- Spanish American Spanish–American War
- Boer Wars Second Boer War
- Summary executions Summary execution
In popular culture
- NBC
- 1973 memoir of the same name Farewell to Manzanar
- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- Come See the Paradise
- The Karate Kid
- Mr. Miyagi
- Pat Morita
- Die Hard
- Hans Gruber
- Joseph Takagi
- Cold Case
- A Song for Manzanar A Song for Manzanar?action=edit&redlink=1
- Hiroshima
- The Man in the High Castle The Man in the High Castle (TV series)
- Kenpeitai
- Tom Russell
- Laurie Lewis
- Koto Koto (musical instrument)
- Hiroshima Hiroshima (band)
- Fort Minor
- Kenji Kenji (song)
- The Rising Tied
- Mike Shinoda
- Channel 3 Channel 3 (band)
- Cock Robin Cock Robin (band)
- First Love / Last Rites
- Steve Heitzeg
- 1945 atomic bombings Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Nagasaki
- Snow Falling on Cedars
Works cited
- New York New York City
- Palgrave MacMillan
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Beito, David T. David T. Beito
- ASIN ASIN (identifier)
- Theatre Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- JSTOR JSTOR (identifier)
- S2CID S2CID (identifier)
- Visual Studies Visual Studies (journal)
- Taylor & Francis
- International Visual Sociology Association
- Oxford University Press
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Nodes183
Edges182
Triples556
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010929
Components1
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Top relations
related to Works cited · 134
Manzanar → After, American Musical Imagination, American Relocation Sites, American Social Disaster, Americas, An Ethnic Perspective, An Oral History, An Overview, Anthony, Anthropology, Archaeological Investigations, Archival Ambivalence, Arthur, Asian American Politics, ASIN B0006FAN8I, August, Bahr, Barbed Voices, Bateman, Beito
related to Further reading · 41
Manzanar → Adams, Ansel, Archived, Born Free And Equal, California, California State University, Camera, Camp, Clarion Books, Community, Cooper, Embrey, Fullerton, Garrett, Inyo County, ISBN, Japanese American Oral History, Japanese Relocation Camp, Jessie, Joyce
related to Music · 35
Manzanar → America, American, Box, Channel, Cock Robin, East, First Love, Folk/country, Fort Minor's, Green Hope After Black, Hiroshima, Hiroshima's, It, Japanese, Japanese American, Kenji, Last Rites, Laurie Lewis, Living, Manzanar Concentration Camp
related to Designations · 29
Manzanar → April, Bush, California, California Historical Landmark, City, Congress, Embrey, February, Five, Historic Places, House Resolution, It, Japanese Americans, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, Manzanar National Historic Site, March, Mel Levine, National Historic Landmark, National Historic Site
related to External links · 28
Manzanar → Archived October, Archived September, Buildings Survey, CA, CA-2399, Constitution, Geography, HABS, Highway, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, Independence, Inyo County, Japanese Americans, Manzanar Assembly Center, Manzanar Committee, Manzanar Cultural Landscape Report, Manzanar National Historic SiteManzanar, Manzanar War Relocation Center, National Historic Site, National Park ServiceA More
related to Manzanar Riot · 24
Manzanar → After, Although, December, FBI, Fred Tayama, Harry Ueno, Heart Mountain, JACL, Japan, Japanese American Citizens League, Japanese Americans, Kibei, Kitchen Workers Union, Manzanar Revolt, Manzanar Riot, Nisei, Poston, Some, The, To
related to background · 23
Manzanar → Also, Approximately, By, By August, George Chaffey, Georges Creek, He, In, Indigenous Americans, Inyo Mountains, John Shepherd, Long Valley, Owens Lake, Owens Valley, Owens Valley Paiute, Paiute, Shepherd's, Sierra Nevada, Southern California, Southern Pacific
related to Food · 20
Manzanar → AM, AM-9, As, Civilians, Congressional Committee, CWRIC, Food, In, Internment, Many, Meals, PM, PM-1, PM-6, Sunday, The, There, They, Wartime Relocation, We
related to Terminology · 18
Manzanar → AJC, American, American Jewish Committee, Americans, At, Ellis Island, Japanese, Japanese American National Museum, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, National Park Service, New York City, Prior, Since, United States Government, War Relocation Authority, War Relocation Center, World War II
related to Reconstruction · 17
Manzanar → April, Bishop Airport, Block, Exhibits, Japanese Americans, Japanese-American, May, National Park Service, NPS, On, One, Site, The Manzanar National Historic, The National Park Service, Under, Visitor Center, World War II
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Important terminology
camp japanese site national american war historic 1942 center relocation camps americans valley also people first california owens one los
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Manzanar | Added to NRHP | July 30, 1976 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Area | 814 acres (329 ha) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Built | 1942 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | CHISL No. | 850 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Coordinates | .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Designated CHISL | 1972 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Designated LAHCM | September 15, 1976 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Designated NHL | February 4, 1985 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Designated NHS | March 3, 1992 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | LAHCM No. | 160 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Location | Inyo County, California | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Nearest city | Independence, California | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | NRHP reference No. | 76000484 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Visitation | 95,764 (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | Website | Manzanar National Historic Site | 1.00 | infobox |
| Manzanar | is a | site of one of ten American concentration camps | 0.90 | text |
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