Sumiko Kobayashi papers, 1941-1991.

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Sumiko Kobayashi papers, 1941-1991.

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This collection documents many aspects of Kobayashi's life and work over five decades, including the World War II deportation and internment camps, leaving the camp to attend college, post-war campaigns to publicize the mass imprisonment and gain redress for it, and participating in a broad range of Japanese-American and Asian-American political and cultural activities.

22 boxes (8.8 linear ft.)

jpn,

eng,

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Japanese Christian Church of Philadelphia.

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Kobayashi, Sumiko, 1923-

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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,...

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies

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