Lorraine Bannai
Attorney, law professor and member of Fred Korematsu’s coram nobis team.
Tag Archives: Asian Descent
Continue reading
Mitsuye Endo
Plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit that ultimately led to the closing of the concentration camps and the return of Japanese Americans to the West Coast in 1945.
Nikki Sawada Bridges Flynn
Noriko “Nikki” Sawada Bridges Flynn was a San Francisco-based activist who advocated for civil liberties, equality and democracy.
Misao Tanigoshi
In 1943, three Japanese American women helped two German prisoners of war escape from a Colorado prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. Prosecuted for treason and convicted of conspiracy to commit treason in federal court in 1944, they served two years in prison.
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga played a crucial role in the Japanese-American redress movement by discovering critical evidence of premeditated governmental misconduct during WWII, and making it available to multiple groups of activists.
Doris Hayashi
Doris Hayashi (1920–2012) was a social worker who participated in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study as a researcher while incarcerated at the temporary detention center at Tanforan, in California, and the permanent concentration camp at Topaz, Utah.
Michi Hashimoto
Hashimoto was an oil and watercolor painter who also produced decorative screens, who exhibited widely in the 1920s and early 1930s in Southern California.
Miki Hayakawa
A prominent California oil painter and printmaker celebrated for her modernist forms and rich use of colors. Hayakawa was part of a fledgling Nisei art milieu that exhibited widely in the 1920s and 1930s.
Masumi Hayashi
Fine art photographer Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006) was best known for her series of panoramic photo-collages taken at ten of the former sites of World War II American concentration camps.
Hisako Hibi
Hisako Shimizu Hibi (1907–91) was an Issei painter and printmaker who exhibited throughout her career, and by the end of her life she was well entrenched in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community. During WWII, she produced a body of work reflecting life at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, and taught at the Topaz Art School .