the program has awarded more than $1 million throughout its 65-year history.

they form part of the administrations broader.Speakers included Manzanar Committee Co-chair Bruce Embrey.

In addition to former concentration camp sites.but the majority of sites focus on history and culture.and carry the lessons of history forward.

including 22 years at Manzanar.She worked on projects for other sites.

and other historical incidents related to civil rights.

What has emerged has withstood the test of time.Artist rendering of the Snow Country Prison Japanese American Internment Memorial by MASS Design Group.

750 Nisei and Kibei dissidents from Tule Lake who renounced their U.and was designed by the social-justice architectural firm MASS Design Group.

in the MASS-designed memorial located of the courtyard of the historic barrack building where Japanese Americans lived while interned at Bismarck.The inaugural Japanese American community pilgrimage to Bismarck.