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Passing It On
By Yuri Kochiyama |
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Book Description from Back Cover
At the age of 77, Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama began to write her memoir for her family. PASSING IT ON is the account of an extraordinary Asian American woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Whites for social justice, civil rights, and prisoners and women's rights in the U.S. and internationally for over half a century. A prolific writer and speaker on human rights, Kochiyama has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities and high schools in the U.S. and Canada.
Family * World War It and Internment Camps * Work and Friendship with Malcolm X * Harlem Freedom Schools * Organization of Afro-American Unity * Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors * Civil Rights in the South * Third World, Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Apartheid Struggles * Native American Sovereignty * Puerto Rican Independence * Vietnam War * Venceremos Brigade * Asian American Movement * Japanese American Redress and Reparations * Defense of Political Prisoners * National and International Human Rights Movements * Anti-War Movements
Comment from Back Cover
This is my grandmother's memoir. It expresses the primary values and themes that have guided and directed her life, and it describes some of the struggles, movements, moments, and people that have most significantly inspired her to become the person that she is today.
- Akemi Kochiyama-Sardinha
Co-editor, Passing it On: A Memoir
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