Feinstein became mayor following the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by former Supervisor Dan White in 1978.

she was the first woman to lead the Senate Intelligence Committee and was the first woman to serve as the Judiciary Committees top Democrat.She was a trailblazer who understood the importance of righting historical wrongs and connecting those unjust incidents of the past to racial hate and prejudice of the present to prevent further anti-Asian incidents from occurring.

As mayor of San Francisco she signed legislation giving redress to incarcerated Japanese Americans – one of the first U.In May 2020 she and her colleagues in the Senate urged the Department of Justices Civil Rights Division to address the rise in discrimination and hate crimes against Asian American and Pacific Islanders.and regularly worked with Republicans to seek middle ground.

The Japanese American National Museum (JANM) mourns the passing of U.Feinstein fought with conviction and compassion for civil rights and civil liberties for all Americans.

Senate action apologizing for the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Her leadership will be missed greatly.As the decade rolled out with the advent of the civil rights movement and as Edison became more politically active on many fronts.

and ate her favorite bento box dinner.and watching soap operas in the afternoon.

Rosalind married Edison Uno and had their first daughter.Her early life was spent in Berkeley until it was disrupted by the World War II exclusion of people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast.