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Title
Group photo with Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga
Date Created and/or Issued
1988-02-11
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
Group photograph with Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga at the Justice in Action Award, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Lunar New Year dinner. From back row: Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga's son, David Abe andand Jack Herzig. In the second row is most likely Aiko's siblings: Amy Yoshinaga, Ei Suzuki Yoshinaga, and John Yoshinaga. Aiko is sitting in the front. Back of photo reads: 14 GLM ok LGN.
Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers includes photographs and a letter related to Aiko's life, family, and work. Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga was an activist for the Japanese American Redress movement whose research conducted for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) provided key evidence that led to redress. She later co-edited the transcription and publication of the CWRIC hearings, along with other related projects. This collection mostly includes photographs from her early life primarily focused on the years 1930-1950. Subjects in the photographs include the Jerome and Rower incarceration camps, post- World War II Japan, Japanese American soldiers, and Japanese American families.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
color
image/jpeg
Identifier
aiko_06_02_01_001
csudh_aiko_0633
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/45794
Language
English
Subject
Activism and involvement--Civil rights
Identity and values--Men
Identity and values--Women
Identity and values--Nisei
Identity and values--Issei
Place
New York City, New York
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8kp888m/
Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga Papers

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