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Description
Satoru Tsuneihi (1888-1987) - far left in second row from top -- emigrated from Kochi via Santa Monica in 1907, and is the first Asian American to graduate from Monrovia High in 1914. He was in the same high school class as the first African American male to graduate, Julian Fisher - top row fourth from left. Tsuneishi then attended one year at USC and wrote a paper against WW1. Satoru was founder of a haiku magazine in America in the 1920s and contributor to Hototogisu, a prestigious Japanese literary magazine. He wrote as Shisei Tsuneishi.
Type
image
Identifier
E3864245-D207-4A65-993C-736775625942 SL 18
Subject
People Japanese American Satoru Tsuneishi Julian Fisher Tsuneishi Family Fisher Family
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