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She is best known as a civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X. Her father was arrested by the FBI after Pearl Harbor, but he died of health complications. After the war she moved to New York and joined the Asian Americans for Action and other civil rights groups. She worked with Black Nationalist groups. She supported many movements until the end. They included: connecting Asian and African American movements, nuclear disarmament, end of the Vietnam War, redress movement, and Puerto Rican independence.

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She returned to Seattle after the war and experienced discrimination regarding buying a house. Thus she became involved in the open house movement. She began teaching in an affluent school and experienced criticism and suspicion because of her race. She helped integrate students of color and advocated for multicultural teaching. She received a United Nations Human Rights Award in 1992.

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After the war she joined the Japanese American Citizens League in Seattle. She was a chapter president by the time of the redress movement. She would also become the vice president of the JACL's national board. She lobbied for redress reparations. She also successfully campaigned for the compensation of those who lost their jobs because of the war.

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She was 15 when her family was interned in the camps. In the camp schools she was especially academic and organized young women's associations. She was going to major in biology but contracted tuberculosis. After the war she wrote a book about the untold stories of the camps, Years of Infamy. It is known as the bible of the redress movement. It exposed prejudice and misinformation regarding the camps.

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She was an important figure of the redress movement. She moved to New York after the war and became the assistant health director of the public health organization. She taught people about venereal diseases. In the the 1960s the joined the Asian Americans for Action which was an anti-war movement. Most of its members were women. She was a lead investigators of Japanese internment camps. She disproved "military necessity" and her reports lead to the redress bill and coram nobis case.