"The Manzanar Interpretive Center is in the former high school auditorium. It was built by internees in 1944. For decades after the war the building was used by the county as a heavy equipment garage."
" Larry Shinoda is the designer of the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray. He was 12 years old when he came to Manzanar with his family."
"Two thirds of the Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar were American citizens. Most others would have become citizens if it were legally possible"
" Hours after Pearl Harbor the Hawaiian territorial governor declared martial law. With the exception of about 2,000 people confined in Hawaii or on the mainland, Japanese Americans were not forcibly removed from the islands. They comprised one-third of the population and their labor was essential for the war effort."
"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."
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