Our county has the largest concentration of immigrant families in California.

is something that stays with me all the time.OAKLAND – The Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee.

This session will also explore prisoner and migrant solidarity rights work happening across the country and in Texas.With the current administrations attempts to whitewash our countrys history.Crystal City was unique as the only large-scale detention facility that held German and Italian nationals in addition to Japanese.

Pilgrimage attendees will include incarceration survivors of Japanese and German ancestry.and a visit to the site of the former prison camp in Crystal City on Saturday.

Crystal City survivors will share their personal stories of hardships experienced as a result of their forced removal and incarceration – and also the sense of hope they found in community spaces built inside the prison camp during their unjust imprisonment.

“The only real difference is that not all Mexican Americans are being detained.from the birthplaces of American presidents to the birthplaces of our democracy.

transparent conversations and a commitment to having an evolving understanding of how the past shapes the present and the future.visitors gave Manzanar top ratings.

She volunteers for multiple interpretation and history projects.JANM will continue to embody our mission.