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.

Oct 1, 2019 · Ralph Lazo (far right) pictured in a yearbook photo alongside friends at the Manzanar Japanese internment camp. By 1942, the teenager had experienced discrimination himself—and those...

Jul 3, 2019 · When Ralph Lazo saw his Japanese-American friends being forced from their homes and into internment camps during World War II, he did something unexpected: He went with them.

Apr 17, 2022 · “The first Lazos landed here in 1519 with Cortes. I’m the adventurous type. It runs in the family.” Born in a Black hospital in Los Angeles, Ralph re­ceived his early schooling on an Indian Reservation in Arizona when his father was with the Santa Fe Railroad.

May 27, 2007 · Latino teenager Ralph Lazo arrives by bus to join his Japanese American friends from Belmont High School. Lazo, a 16-year-old Mexican-Irish American, was motivated by loyalty and outrage at the...

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.

During World War II, when his friends and neighbors were being forcibly removed as part of the Japanese American internment, Ralph Lazo did the unthinkable; he was so outraged that he joined friends on the trains that took hundreds to the Manzanar camps in May 1942.

Ralph Lazo, born in Los Angeles in 1924, was of Mexican and Irish descent. In 1942, at age 17, while attending Belmont High School in Los Angeles, Lazo learned that Japanese American friends and their families were ordered to relocate to government “ War Relocation Centers .”

Ralph Lazo, a Mexican-American from southern California, was 17 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941. When he saw some of his best Japanese friends rounded up by the US government to be shipped off to desert camps, he …

May 20, 2024 · High school student from Los Angeles who voluntarily went with his Nisei friends to Manzanar in 1942. Of Mexican and Irish descent, young Ralph Lazo (1924–92) grew up among Nisei, many of whom attended Belmont High School with him.