Mari Okazaki
Mari Okazaki (1916-2005) was a psychiatric social worker who participated in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) as a researcher and continued her career in social care in the postwar years.
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Mari Sabusawa Michener
Mari Sabusawa Michener (1920–94) was a Japanese American activist and philanthropist.
Mary Smeltzer
Peace activist, teacher at Manzanar, and manager of resettlement-era hostels in Chicago and New York.
Michi Nishiura Weglyn
Activist and author of Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, the first comprehensive book about the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans written by a Nisei.
Milly Woodward
Bainbridge Island newspaper publisher and editor who was among the few who opposed incarceration of Japanese-Americans dring WWII.
Georgia Elliott
Pioneer in the Deaf women’s rights movement
Miya Sannomiya Kikuchi
Cultural ambassador and journalist.
Mothers of Topaz
In response to the restoration of Selective Service for Nisei, some Issei mothers in Topaz organized to write a petition protesting the continued discrimination against their sons’ citizenship rights.
Yoshiko Yamanouchi
Yoshiko Yamanouchi (1895–1973) was an early Buddhist community leader, businesswoman, and amateur painter.
Rose Matsui Ochi
While serving as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow for the Western Center on Law and Poverty she won the landmark educational law reform case, Serrano v. Priest, serving as the co-counsel of record.