Kobayashi, Sumiko, 1923-

Dates:
Birth 1923
Japanese, English,

Biographical notes:

Sumiko Kobayashi was born in Yamato, a Japanese agricultural community near Palm Beach, Florida, the daughter of Japanese immigrants.

Her family was relocated from San Leandro, California under Executive Order 9066 and interned in the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Sumiko was allowed to leave the camp in order to attend college through the help of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, and graduated from Brothers College, Drew University in Madison, New Jersey in 1946. She has been active in many Japanese-American and Asian-American organizations and served as Redress Chair for Pennsylvania of the Japanese American Citizens' League's National Committee on Redress.

From the description of Sumiko Kobayashi papers, 1941-1991. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 57926741

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Subjects:

  • Asian Americans
  • Asian Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • Japanese Americans
  • World War, 1939-1945

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Places:

  • Central Utah Relocation Center (as recorded)
  • Pennsylvania--Philadelphia (as recorded)