An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees.

Autorentext
Diana Meyers Bahr is an independent oral historian and a former project associate at the Oral History Program of UCLA.

Inhalt

Introduction: Manzanar National Historic Site: Fulfillment of a Mission * Growing up in Little Tokyo * Old Values in a New Home * A Father's Shadow * The Impact of Pearl Harbor * Manzanar: Weeping Under the Apple Trees * Manzanar: A Community of Contradictions * Violence and Desolation * Go Forth, Seek and Find * The Kunitomis: Reunited, then Diminished * Nisei Progressives and Beyond * The Unquiet Nisei * The Manzanar Committee * Redress and Reparations * Conclusion: The Legacy of Sue Kunitomi Embrey