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 At Manzanar National Historic Site, we are passionate about telling the stories of this unique landscape and making them relevant to future generations. We invite you to join us in this endeavor. We mail out dozens of teacher packets every month. If you would like to find out more about this program, please call our education coordinator, Carrie Andresen, at (760) 878-2194, ext. 2714. Also, please investigate the lesson plans we have here. Let us know what you think and what we can do to improve our educational materials.

 

 
9th grade class at Jerome
Photo by Tom Parker. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Mrs. Ziegler oversees her 9th grade class at the internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas. Manzanar and Jerome were two of the ten internment camps that held Japanese Americans during World War II. Classrooms were typically set up in military style barracks.


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