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Her relatively privileged childhood came to an abrupt end when her father was arrested by the FBI immediately after Pearl Harbor. After six weeks in detention, which aggravated existing health conditions, Kochiyama’s father died upon his release. Imprisoned in Jerome, Arkansas, during the war, she relocated to New York with her family and adopted increasingly radical political views as she became active in Asian Americans for Action (AAA) and other civil rights organizations.

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In the 1970s she began teaching, and was soon transferred to an affluent, essentially all-white school as part of the district’s desegregation plan. Kurose managed to do her job despite having to put up with the criticism and surveillance of racist “concerned” parents. She helped integrate students of color into the school, pushed other teachers to adopt multicultural education, and generally killed it in the classroom.

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Cherry helped get the grassroots movement off the ground, took the lead in preparing the community for the CWRIC hearings, and was heavily involved in lobbying for redress and reparations—all while facing opposition from those who said dredging up the incarceration history would only cause trouble.

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Her book exposed prejudice and misinformation as the driving forces behind the incarceration, and bolstered support for the growing movement. She later turned her attention to Japanese Latin Americans and others who had been denied reparations, advocating on their behalf well into the 1990s.

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In the 1960s, Herzig-Yoshinaga joined Asian Americans for Action (AAA), a group led by lady activists and a few guys down with the struggle, and got involved in the civil rights movement, and protests against the Vietnam War.