https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a What US History books fail to acknowledge en-us 2022-05-02 17:19:27 UTC 2022-05-02 18:20:11 UTC hello@padlet.com ljohnson0101 https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117672 - went to New York after the war and became the assistant director of a public health organization
- in the 1960s, joined Asian Americans for Action (AAA), a group led by female activists where she was involved in protests against the Vietnam War
- moved to Washington DC in 1978 working in the National Archives, cataloging information on wartime incarcerations
- uncovered evidence disproving the government's claims of "military necessity" which eventually led to the redress bill]]> 2022-05-02 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117672 ljohnson0101 https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117673 - 15 when her family was moved to a camp
- head of her high school's Forensics League and won awards for writing and speaking while in the camp
- left to major in biology but had to stop when she contracted tuberculosis
- moved to New York and was a costume designer for the Perry Como Show 
- published a book in 1975 on the prejudice and misinformation behind the incarcerations 
- began advocating for Japanese Latin Americans into the 1990s]]> 2022-05-02 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117673 ljohnson0101 https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117674 - returned to Seattle with her husband after the war and joined Japanese Americans Citizens League
- helped the grassroots movements get off the ground 
- led community preparations for the CWRIC hearings
- involved in lobbying for redress reparations
- ran a successful campaign to force the Seattle school district to compensate those they'd fired in response to Pear Harbor]]> 2022-05-02 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117674 ljohnson0101 https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117675 - grew up in a diverse, red lined Seattle neighborhood with parents who encouraged her to challenge stereotypes
- returned to Seattle after the war and worked for an inter ethnic porter's union 
- become involved in open housing movement
- began teaching in the 1970s and was transferred to an essentially all white school where she had to put up with racism as she helped students of color to integrate into the school
- received the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1992]]> 2022-05-02 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117675 ljohnson0101 https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117676 - father arrested by the FBI right after Pearl Harbor and died when released after six weeks of detention in awful conditions
- went to New York after imprisonment and became an active member of Asian Americans for Action
- came into contact with Malcolm X and worked with in the civil rights movement even after his assasination
- advocated for nuclear disarmament, an end to the Vietnam War, Japanese American redress, Puerto Rican independence, and many other issues
- died in 2014]]> 2022-05-02 17:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ljohnson0101/uc9mp33r328zuh8a/wish/2167117676