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They initially planned to get married at Camp Shelby, where Bill was stationed, in 1944, but the wedding was postponed due to objections from Bill's father, who wanted to meet Yuri before the two married. Soon after, Kochiyama left the camp to work with the USO in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and later to work with Nisei soldiers in Minneapolis ...
On June 6, 2014, Kiran Ahuja, as the executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, honored Yuri Kochiyama, on the White House website for dedicating "her life to the pursuit of social justice, not only for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community but all communities of color." [14]
Along with other Japanese American radicals like Yuri Kochiyama and Shizu "Minn" Matsuda, Iijima built the AAA as a platform for opposing the Vietnam War and for nurturing grassroots Asian American solidarity. [3] [4] The organization was notable as the first group to define itself as pan-Asian, multigenerational, and politically progressive.
In 1969, Shizuko "Minn" Matsuda and Kazu Iijima founded the Asian Americans for Action (Triple A or AAA) in New York City.The two women were inspired by the Black Power movement and originally planned a Japanese American political and social action movement, but ultimately chose to make it a pan-Asian organization, inviting members of all Asian ethnic groups to join. [1]
They agreed to volunteer their homes as "retreats" for the Maidens. Activists Bill and Yuri Kochiyama also raised support for the project in the New York Japanese American community, and it was arranged for Japanese American Helen Yokoyama to accompany the Maidens to the United States as their "den mother". [14]
Yuri Kochiyama (May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was a Japanese-American political activist who advocated for social justice and human rights movements, specifically during the Civil Rights Era. In 1943, Kochiyama and her family were sent to a concentration camp in Arkansas, for two years as a result of discriminatory World War Two policy in the ...
It would have been a great movement with the two charismatic men. And I think that the government had to stop that at any cost." This leads into further eye-witness accounts of the day that Malcolm X died, by community activist Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X's wife, Betty Shabazz, and one of his aides, Imam Benjamin Karim.
Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014), Japanese American civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X; Russell S. Kokubun, member, Hawaii State Senate; Fred Korematsu (1919–2005), Medal of Freedom recipient who argued against the internment; Aki Kurose (1925–2008), activist and educator who helped establish Seattle's first Head Start Program