manzanar

<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/muslim-americans-pilgrimage-manzanar/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/marya-bangee/">Marya Bangee</a></p>
<p>The morning of the 100th day of Trump’s presidency, I found myself on a bus heading to a concentration camp. To be more specific, I was headed toward Manzanar, the camp where more than 10,000 Japanese-Americans were held during World War II. I was one of a thousand people who were visiting the camp on the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the 1942 order that called for the interment of anyone of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/muslim-americans-pilgrimage-manzanar/#more-4161" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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A Muslim-American’s Pilgrimage to Manzanar

Marya Bangee founded <a href="http://www.silaconsulting.co">SILA</a>, a social impact firm that believes in the power of connection and storytelling to drive social change. She is a Ford Public Voices Fellow of <a href="http://www.theopedproject.org/">The OpEd Project</a>.