Today’s Illustrated Women in History was illustrated by Sophia Parsons Cope @soufexdraws and the biography was written by Melaina Leung. It will be included in the next Illustrated Women in History zine! Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is a Japanese-American writer, best known for Farewell to Manzanar, her autobiographical novel about life in a Japanese internment camp during …
Aki Kurose was a Seattle teacher, peace and social activist who devoted her life to advocating for the neglected, the disadvantaged and children. She helped to establish Seattle’s Head Start program to bring comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. Kurose was born in 1925 in …
Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese American political activist and lifelong champion of civil rights for Black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American communities. Kochiyama was born in 1921 in San Pedro, California to Japanese immigrant parents Seiichi Nakahara and Tsuyako Nakahara. Kochiyama grew up in a predominantly white neighbourhood and became the first female student body …