standing in day-long lines to fill out massive amounts of paperwork.

Houston recalled in an essay she wrote in 1992 for the Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series.introduced many to the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience for the first time.

I still recall seeing the movie highlighted on the front page of the local TV listings and recognizing it as being significant even if my teenage self couldnt quite articulate why.to write the most well-known chronicle of the Japanese American World War II experience.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.Higashi Honganji and Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temples.

I believe the people who came here as immigrants initially chose the City Hall vicinity as a relatively safe place to live and work and gather.have many facilities in Little Tokyo.

please contact the SCGF office at (213) 628-1595 or info@scgf.SCGF volunteers gave up their Sundays to build it over a period of two years.