Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (died 2014)

Yuri Kochiyama

American civil rights activist (1921–2014)

Yuri Kochiyama was an American civil rights activist born in San Pedro, California. She was interned at the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas during World War II, an experience that influenced her later views on racism in the United States. While interned, she helped run…