although they are not paid until the government reopens.

and kind in the face of adversity.and many people wanted to do more.

eventually settling in Santa Fe.which went directly to those who had evacuated and lost their homes.The War Relocation Authority used the excuse of the churchs non-payment of property taxes in its plan to convert the church into a home for the Japanese elderly.

While the GBC could no longer hold its annual in-person Obon Festivals during this time.church membership is believed to have reached more than a thousand.

GBC held its annual temple bell-ringing.

From Japanese residents in the 1920s coming together to build their own community church to surviving and rebuilding after the tragedies of World War II incarceration.Democracy is fragile and we need to keep going.

a native of South Africa who was jailed as a political prisoner for demonstrating against apartheid.Former incarcerees and descendants of incarcerees sat on the stage behind the speakers.

A thousand armed troops invaded when it became a maximum security prison.23 outside the Japanese American National Museum for a Day of Action in response to federal immigration enforcement activities in Little Tokyo a week earlier.