Columnist Bob Shimabukuro has been working on an account of Henry Miyatake and other individuals who hatched the Japanese American redress movement in Seattle in the 1970s.
Details of the people and the process involved in The Day of Remembrance, the event that in 1978 united the families that were evacuated to the Puyallup Fair Grounds and was the largest gathering of Japanese Americans since the camps. Helped solidify…
The efforts of Seattle JACL in educating the state about the evacuation, the people and efforts that went into lobbying the Washington State Congressional delegation are discussed in some detail.
