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When discussing America and giving credit where it is due, we should be diligent in acknowledging all Americans.
Atrocities and bias actions have occurred to many of us, following are just a few we need to acknowledge.
Japanese American internment , horrible injustices, were the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The U.S. government ordered the internment in 1942, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally as a geographic matter: all who lived on the West Coast were interned, while in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans comprised over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were interned.
Yuji Ichioka, (June 23, 1936 – September 1, 2002) was an American historian and civil rights activist best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies and his participation in the Asian American Movement. Adjunct Professor Yuji Ichioka (History and Asian American Studies). He coined the term "Asian American" to help unify different Asian ethnic groups (e.g. Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, etc.), and was considered the preeminent scholar of Japanese American history.
YURI KOCHIYAMA (born May 19, 1922) is a US
Japanese-American civil rights activist. Kochiyama was born Mary Nakahara in
San Pedro, California. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Kochiyama's
father was imprisoned the same day. Her family was sent to a camp in Arkansas,
g the 130,000 Japanese-Americans interned during the Second World War.
Two of her brothers joined the US Army. In
1960, Kochiyama and her husband Bill moved to Harlem, New York City, and joined
the Harlem Parents Committee. She got acquainted with Malcolm X and became a
member of his Organization for Afro-American Unity, following his departure
from the Nation of Islam. She was present at his assassination on February 21,
1965 at the Audobon Ballroom in Harlem, and held him in her arms as he lay
dying.
In 1977, Kochiyama joined the group of
Puerto Ricans that took over the Statue of Liberty to draw attention to the
struggle for Puerto Rican independence. Over the years, Kochiyama has dedicated
herself to various causes like rights of political prisoners, nuclear
disarmament, freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal and reparations to Japanese-Americans who
were interned during the war.
Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi (Japanese: 平林 潔, Hirabayashi Kiyoshi) (April 23, 1918 –January 2, 2012) was an American sociologist, best known for his principled resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II, and the court case which bears his name, Hirabayashi v. United States.
In 1942 he turned himself in to the FBI, and after being convicted for curfew violation was sentenced to 90 days in prison. He invited prosecution in part to appeal the verdict all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with the backing of the ACLU.
On April 27, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that Hirabayashi would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his principled stand against Japanese-American internment. The President presented the award posthumously on May 29 (There is so much more to this man and the case, you should research it.)
TOYOSABURO KOREMATSU
Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu (是松 豊三郎 Korematsu Toyosaburō ? , January 30, 1919 –March 30, 2005) was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast at the onset of World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War and his military commanders to remove all individuals of Japanese ancestry from designated "military areas" and place them in internment camps in what is known as the Japanese American internment. When such orders were issued for the West Coast, Korematsu instead became a fugitive. The legality of t internment order was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States, but Korematsu's conviction was overturned decades later after the disclosure of new evidence challenging the necessity of the internment, which had been withheld from the courts by the U.S. government during the war.
To commemorate his journey as a civil rights activist, the "Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution" was observed for first time on January 30, 2011, by the state of California, and first such commemoration for an Asian American in the US.
BEADS ON A STRING-AMERICA'S RACIALLY INTERTWINED BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
"Within America's history-“I feel that we, as Americans, are all equal and held together by a common thread. Like a treasured beaded necklace of different colors, held together on a string, we are held together by our necessities and our circumstances and our humanity. Every color helps to make the necklace beautiful. We can never be a totally separate entity! Americans of all colors are so integrated that if we hurt one, we hurt all. Just like that necklace of treasured beads- leave one out and the gap is seen. Break the chain and many of us are lost.” What do you believe? Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History
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