noting the ability to change with the times by the community organization that was honoring her

In a photo they provided to her alma mater San Jose State University.Her work remains essential reading and her impact on American literature and civil rights awareness will endure.

I realized the feeling I carried about the incarceration was one of deep humiliation.We have the shoulders of Martin Luther King and others to stand upon.My family and the Japanese American community lost a great advocate and storyteller.

She and her family were among the 10.hosted by the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California.

yet you are sullied by that experience.

She spent her young prewar life in Southern California.Ventura County Historic Landmark 18.

contains about 75 known graves.The cleanup is co-hosted by Keiro and USCs Alumni Day of Service.

The Masons also charged Japanese Americans five times the standard cost to be buried in the Masonic Cemetery.owned by Japanese Americans in Oxnard.