Being in Paris proved fortuitous; he studied sculpture under Ossip Zadkine and painting under Fernand Léger.

Suma left Heart Mountain for Tule Lake to work as a research assistant to Dr.Suma Yokotake remained active in local politics in Los Angeles.

and by Mike Masaoka in the postwar years.the African American newspaper The Los Angeles Tribune reported that she was appointed as a board member for the Los Angeles chapter of the National Urban League.She promised readers that one of these days there will be a Nisei employed as a teacher in the Los Angeles school system.

JACL leader Saburo Kido later stated that the Cable Act offered an important lesson: We were babes in the woods then as far as legislative movements were concerned.few had as much impact as her.

Sugis success also motivated others to follow suit and lobby Congress.

Saburo Kido wrote in The Shin Nichibei a piece lauding the accomplishments of Suma and Tokie Slocum: It was a coincidence.To learn more about the Los Angeles Tanabata Festival.

where individuals and organizations can submit their own creations.The festival will feature the kazari competition.

The kazari displays at the Los Angeles Tanabata Festival are free to the public and will be on view until the end of the festival.Orihime wove clothes by the heavenly river.