Kikuchi (Charles) papers
Owning Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
About this Collection
Photographs and writings of Charles Kikuchi (1916-1988), an activist and psychiatric social worker for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, who authored an account of his family's wartime incarceration at the Gila River camp in his 1973 book, The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp. Kikuchi first made a literary impact through "A Young American with a Japanese Face" (1940), an anonymous account of the struggles that young Nisei like himself faced in their attempts to at once assimilate into a discriminatory American society and remain connected to their families' cultural heritage. Kikuchi maintained his commitment to social justice throughout his career as a social worker, where, after graduating from the University of California, he worked for decades helping African American Vietnam War veterans navigate post-war life. View this collection on the contributor's website.View collection guide.
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