{"id":12062,"date":"2023-10-26T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.aasc.ucla.edu\/kochiyama\/?page_id=12062"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:29:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learn.aasc.ucla.edu\/kochiyama\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column12062_da7bdb-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col{display:flex;}.kadence-column12062_da7bdb-29{max-width:80%;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}.wp-block-kadence-column.kb-section-dir-horizontal:not(.kb-section-md-dir-vertical)>.kt-inside-inner-col>.kadence-column12062_da7bdb-29{-webkit-flex:0 1 80%;flex:0 1 80%;max-width:unset;margin-left:unset;margin-right:unset;}.kadence-column12062_da7bdb-29 > .kt-inside-inner-col,.kadence-column12062_da7bdb-29 > 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.kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column12062_d5d991-a1\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76\"]{padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);font-size:1.75rem;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:'Playfair Display';}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_4f4160-76\"><strong>Yuri Kochiyama Exhibit and Archives<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f\"]{font-size:1.3rem;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_10b068-4f\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_525bef-8e\">Yuri Kochiyama is one of the most iconic figures in Asian American community, civil rights and social movement history. This digital exhibition and archive containing over 4,000 images deepens our understanding of her politicization and growth as a child to later becoming an organizer and social movement activist. Reading letters she wrote to servicemen, political prisoners, politicians, and old friends reveals the complex thinker she was and the concerns that weighed upon her daily decisions in the face of political and personal turmoil. Diary entries about her family\u2019s\u00a0removal to the Santa Anita Detention Center and the Jerome concentration camp and her messages in the Crusaders\u2019 newsletters reveal her empathy towards human suffering and her tenacity of will. One can see links between her stories of mass incarceration and her work on behalf of political prisoners and many other issues. We invite researchers, educators, counselors, students, and lifelong learners to learn about the wrongful mass incarceration and one woman\u2019s journey for social justice through her rare and revealing documents and ephemera left for posterity.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e\"]{font-size:1.3rem;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_ca93c1-0e\"><strong>Acknowledgements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_69bf4f-1f\">This website was made possible by the late Yuri Kochiyama and the Kochiyama family who made these archives accessible to the public through the University of California and the Asian American Studies Center. The digitization of archival materials and the creation of the exhibition was made possible by grants from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program of the California State Library and the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program of the National Parks Service. Archival materials on the activities of the Crusaders, an organization that Yuri founded with fellow incarcerees, were made available by the Japanese American National Museum. This project was supported by Densho where the digital archives from the UCLA Yuri Kochiyama collections are also housed.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_86e3ae-03\">We also acknowledge the following individuals who contributed to the creation of this website:&nbsp;<br><br>Karen Umemoto, Principal Investigator<br>Diane Fujino, Curator<br>Darlene Okamoto Lee, Curriculum Developer and Co-Curator<br>Marjorie Lee, Librarian and Archivist<br>Lien Joy Campbell, BA Assistant<br>Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Deputy Director<br>Betty Leung, Administrator<br>Arnold Pan, Writer &amp; Editor<br>Daniel H. Kim, Lead Software Engineer<br>Helen Seto, Digital Collections Research Assistant&nbsp;<br>Barbra Ramos, Marketing Manager<br>Christine Wang, Research Project Coordinator<br>Lauren Higa, Project Coordinator<br>Christine Lee, Project Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading12062_8d6cde-68\">And special thanks to our Digitization Team: Justin Arcangel, Andrae Chin, Lauren Higa, Harmony Hsu, Rishab Khurana, Joanne Luong, Tom Nguyen, Serena Ong, Helen Seto, Mary Grace Stevens, and Christine Wang.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuri Kochiyama Exhibit and Archives About Yuri Kochiyama is one of the most iconic figures in Asian American community, civil rights and social movement history. 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