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Southland is one of the best seller books of the LA Times. It won the best winning awards in 2003. Nina_Revoyr is an American novelist and social worker. She was born in Japan and lived in Japan and Los Angeles. In southland the story involves love, murder and history. Frank (Jackie’s grandfather) owned a small grocery in the racially integrated Crenshaw district he grew up in. When frank died in 1994, lois had found 38,000 cash in frank’s closet hidden. Jackie was on a mission to discover who Curtis is, a man she never heard of. Curtis Martindale was one of four African-American boys found locked in Frank's walk-in freezer after the riots. Jackie then discovers frank’s relationship with Curtis. Frank was also sent to Manzanar camp with his family.

Manzanar is the Manzanar Relocation Center, established as the Owens Valley Reception Center, was first run by the U.S. Army's Wartime Civilian Control Administration (WCCA). It later became the first relocation center to be operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The center was located at the former farm and orchard community of Manzanar. Founded in 1910, the town was abandoned when the city of Los Angeles purchased the land in the late 1920s for its water rights. The Los Angeles aqueduct, which carries Owens Valley water to Los Angeles, is a mile east of Manzanar. Begun in March of 1942, the relocation center was built by Los Angeles contractor Griffith and Company. Construction proceeded 10 hours a day 7 days a week; major construction was completed within six weeks. On March 21 the first 82 Japanese Americans made the 220-mile trip by bus from Los Angeles. More volunteers soon followed to help build the relocation center: over the next few days 146 more Japanese Americans arrived in 140 cars and trucks under military escort. Another 500 Japanese Americans, mostly older men, arrived from Los Angeles by train. By mid April, up to 1,000 Japanese Americans were arriving at Manzanar a day and by mid May Manzanar had a population of over 7,000. By July Manzanar's population was nearly 10,000. Over 90 percent of the evacuees were from the Los Angeles area; others were from Stockton, California, and Bainbridge Island, Washington.