Manzanar had another sub-community that involved children, and this was the orphanage. Given the name “Children’s Village”, it was home to 101 children with the three and a half years since it was established. These children were taken away from Japanese orphanages and foster homes (some from Caucasian foster homes) during the time of the evacuations. Children’s Village had its own playground and garden, which were bulit by the residents of Manzanar (Levine 85-86). The fact hat the people of Manzanar not only set-up an orphanage, but also accessories to go along with it (play area and garden) displays the effective behaviors that may take place when people are forced to adapt to unforeseen situations. The community of Manzanr banded together to help the children in regards to eduction and certain accommodations.

The Manzanar newspaper or the Manzanar Free Press came about on April 11, 1942. A group of men who were once newspapermen started the paper so that the residents of Manzanar could get correct information about issues surrounding them. It was given its name by the men because they felt that “truth must be the keystone of this community…” (Armor & Wright 121). The paper was printed in both English and Japanese Adams 53). At the beginning the newspaper was four pages and was printed “biweekly”, once a month had passed the paper was printed three times a week and was six pages long. Its national and international news was based on other publications and newspapers from all over (Armor & Wright 121). The Manzanar Free Press was what many would consider important to a community. Think about the olden days when certain immigrants were first arriving in America, many communities had their own newspapers in different languages listing names of people looking for others and things of that nature. These newspapers helped out the people of the community. That is what the Manzanar Free Press did for the community of Manzanar, it help with having jobs available (Armor & Wright 121) and with informing a community that, without the printed information, would be truly isolated because barbed wire fences. Another thing that the newspaper, along with the other mentioned activities, did was give the residents of Manzanar a sense of belonging to a community of people.

Of these ten permanent camps, Manzanar was one of them; it was fenced in by bared wire and kept in the evacuees along with armed guards in towers. Manzanar was located in Owens Valley, California (Grapes 137) and was one of the ten of what the government called “wartime communities” (Cooper 30). It was where the evacuees started their new lives. They took the desart area and made a community out of it. It was almost like something would see in present day at a museum exhibit of pioneers. In Manzanar there were schools, sports teams, churches, movie set-ups, even Boy Scouts troops, and police and fire departments (Grapes 137). There was an orphanage named “Children’s Village” (Levine 86), there were also Farms to work on and the work of “the Manzanar Cooperative” (Armor & Wright 91, 97). Manzanar even had its own newspaper called the Manzanar Free Press (Adams 35).

There were attempts for college students to be able to attend college outside of Manzanar, and i

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