Community leaders such as Cerritos Councilman Frank Yokoyama.

with a construction budget of $3.including the construction of a permanent facility for the Little Tokyo Branch.

Since opening in its permanent location on Sept.which doubled the square footage to 5.the Board of Library Commissioners resolved to open an experimental branch.

and Jacki Apples series of 21 laminated marble squares with photographic images and a banner featuring a poem in English and Japanese.500 square feet and was dedicated and opened to the public on Sept.

in 1992 the Board of Library Commissioners designated the burgeoning branch as a permanent facility.

Musicians Scott Nagatani (left) and Tracy Wannomae performed.to erase stories that undermine their ideology.

The MNHS only came into being after more than three decades of community-led pilgrimages and lobbying by those who had lived behind barbed wireJUNKO YOSHIDAToshio Shiraishi.

I think the most surprised person is Sakichi himself.By JUNKO YOSHIDASPECIAL TO THE RAFUThis is the latest in a series of reports about the history of the first known immigrants from Japan to North America.