In 1942, the U.S. government ordered more than 120,000 men, women and children from their homes and detained them indefinitely in ten isolated, military-style camps they called “War Relocation Centers.” Manzanar—a four-hour drive from LA, through the Angeles Forest, the Mojave Desert and the foothills of the Eastern Sierra Nevadas—was one of them. In 1992, […]
