As a high school student.

an organization historically dominated by men.Sugis work on the Cable Act did not end in 1931.

fought for an end to the restrictions facing them in the job market.the Los Angeles JACL sent Sugi to be its representative in Washington.she submitted an advertisement for handkerchiefs that was printed in The Los Angeles Evening Express.

when she traveled to Washington on behalf of the JACLs Los Angeles chapter to push for an amendment of the Cable Act.chapter raised $300 from its membership to pay her — an impressive sum at the depths of the Great Depression — and also garnered support from the Chinese American Alliance League.

including Toki Slocum and Toro Kanazawa.

Sugis interest in the issues facing second-generation Japanese Americans led her to work with Stanford University psychologist Edward Strong.The need to give today is far greater than in my own time.

Panel at “Hearing the Silent Plea: 30 Years after Freedom for Chol Soo Lee.a pan-Asian international movement grew to force the wheels of justice to release him on March 28.

then under the direction of David Yoo.an investigative reporter for The Sacramento Union.