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Plot. In 1941, Ralph Lazo is a 16-year-old student at Belmont High School, an ethnically mixed school in downtown Los Angeles. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, Ralph's Japanese American friend, Jimmy Matsuoka, and his family are forced to sell their belongings and evacuate to a remote concentration camp.
- Amy E. Kato
- Dave Iwataki, Quetzal
Based on a true story, STAND UP FOR JUSTICE is a short dramatic film about Ralph Lazo, a young Latino American teenager from Los Angeles who voluntarily went to Manzanar concentration camp.
This video includes scenes from the 30-minute drama, and interviews from the companion video on the making of Stand Up for Justice, a film based on the true story of a Mexican American high school student who stood up for his Japanese American friends during WWII—by choosing to live in confinement with them at Manzanar concentration camp.
1 giu 2018 · Widely known and embraced by the Japanese-American community, Ralph Lazo’s heroic story was immortalized in 2004 with the 30-minute short film Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo...
Short film that dramatizes the story of Ralph Lazo , a Los Angeles high school student of Mexican and Irish descent, who voluntarily chose to go to Manzanar to support his Nisei friends and protest the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
2 mag 2024 · “Stand Up for Justice” is based on the true story of Ralph Lazo (1924-1992), a Mexican/Irish American teenager from Belmont High School in Los Angeles who went to extraordinary lengths to support his Japanese American friends during World War II by following them to Manzanar.
Ralph Lazo (November 3, 1924 – January 1, 1992) was the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American who voluntarily relocated to a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. His experience was the subject of the 2004 narrative short film Stand Up for Justice: The Ralph Lazo Story .
