More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif., during World War II. Playing and watching baseball was one of the ways these Americans tried to retain some sense of normalcy. Dan Kwong is a longtime volunteer at Manzanar, which became a national historic site in 1992 — his late mother, Momo Nagano, was incarcerated there as a teenager. Here's the story of how he built a baseball field at the site in honor of Momo, who wrote extensively about her time at the camp in order that future generations would never forget this piece of history.

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#History #USHistory #InternmentCamps #AlienEnemiesAct @histodons #Baseball #Manzanar #JapaneseAmericans

"MAGAmoron expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days"

ICYMI, this is the same law #FDR used to send #Americans of #Japanese ancestry to #concentration camps as an excuse to loot their land and property. Does anyone know the IP address at #Manzanar bc that's prob where I'll soon be logging in.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/alien-enemies-act-deportation-consideration/index.html

Weathered post, Manzanar Internment Camp, Independence, California. April 2021. When we give in to fear and xenophobia we get places like this #shame #manzanar #photography #cemetery #internment camp #blackandwhite #racism #Japanese #xenophobia

Obelisk, Main Cemetery, Manzanar Internment Camp, Independence, California. April 2021. When we give in to fear and xenophobia we get places like this #shame #manzanar #photography #cemetery #internment camp #blackandwhite #racism #Japanese #xenophobia