December 20, 2017December 5, 2018 by Julie

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 …

Yuri Kochiyama

May 23, 2016December 5, 2018 by Julie

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 …

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