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Living her early life in a fairly rich, privelaged family, Yuri got a taste of the true discrimination after the attacks on pearl harbor in which her father and family was arrested, and her father died. Since then, she has worked for the AAA and other social justice programs to bring reform and awareness to pressing issues with japanese and other racial, ethic, and gender groups.

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her father was arrested by FBI and died soon after. She moved to NY and was part off the AAA and other civil rights groups. She was friends with Malcom X and he helped her get into dealing with civil rights issues.

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Working through discriminatory fields and situations all throughout her youth, Aki faced the challenge and accepted a job in a white school, helping to desegregate and teach multiculturalism to school children dispite the inherent racism presented.

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After returning from a camp during the war, she joined the JACL and took part in lobbying for reparations

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An assistant director for a public health organization as an expert on venereal diseases. In he 1960s she joined AAA as one of the few women and protested against the Vietnam War

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Aki grew up in a redlined Seattle neighborhood. in the 1970s she started teaching, and went on to integrate the school.

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Cherry Kinoshita had to deal with being the only woman in the room more than once. She was a part of the Japanese American Citizens League in Seattle, and eventually became chapter president. She also ran a successful campaign that forced the Seattle school board to compensate Nikkei clerks they had fired in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor.

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Yuri was an ally to the black community, working with them and building connections between black and Asian American activists. She faced some struggles in her past when her dad was arrested after Pearl Harbor and died shortly after his release from prison. However, Yuri used this as fuel for her work in activism.

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Cherry joined the Japanese American Citizens Union (JACL) after returning to Seattle from Minidoka, and after some time in the union she became a chapter president, and assisted in getting the organization going and growing.

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After incarceration following the attacks on pearl harbor, Michi underwent university studies, however did not graduate due to tuberculosis. After dropping out, she dedicated her life to advocacy for Asian Americans, detailing the injustices they faces, particularly turning to Asian-Latin@s late in her career.

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Would work with black nationalist groups past her great friend, Malcom X's assassination in 1965. She supported political prisoners and building coalitions black and Asian American activists.

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Aki Kurose worked for an interethnic porters union, and eventually became involved in the open housing movement. She was a teacher in the 1970's. She was eventually transferred to an all-white school where she had to deal with prejudice and racism.

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She was 15 when she and her family were taken to an internment camp. In the camp, she lead high school programs and eventually left the camp and majored in biology. She became a costume designer and later wrote books exposing the incarceration.

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Cherry would be a chapter president by the time the redress movement was influential. She would also go on to serve as Vice President of JACL's national board and vice governor for the Northwest district.

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Was 15 when her family was first "evacuated" into a concentration camp. Spent her time in camp winning different awards and starting womans organization groups. In 1975, after she moved to New York, she published the "Bible of the Redress Movement" exposing life in the camps.

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Award-winning public speaker, writer, activist, and woman in STEM. Contracted tuberculosis and died in the 1990s.

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Yuri Kochiyama's father was arrested after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and died shortly after his release. She eventually relocated to New York where she adopted more liberal views. She worked with civil rights groups and leaders, including Malcom X, and advocated for the end of the Vietnam War, Puerto Rican independence, and more.

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Aki Kurose experienced a lot of racism from realtors and became involved in the open housing movement. in the 1970s she began teaching in an all white school where she helped stop sgregation in schools, seeing racism still from "concerned" white parents

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she was a single mother who went on to work with New York's public health organization, then shifted towards civil rights activism. in 1978 she moved to DC and worked on cataloging information about incarceration during wartime. This eventually led to an investigation of the internment camps.

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Single mom and assistant director of a public health organization providing, as she put it, “education about venereal diseases.”

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Aiko, a highschool student in Los Angeles, was arrested and taken into government custody after the attacks on pearl Harbor. After getting freed years later, she moved to New York City where she worked in social health. After years of activism in NYC, she moved to Washington D.C. and continued work on Asian Americans for Action (AAA)

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Five Japanese-American Women Activist. What our US History curriculum fail to acknowledge

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Five Japanese-American Women Activist. What our US History curriculum fail to acknowledge