Yuri Kochiyama

Activist

1921-05-19 – 2014-06-01

Yuri Kochiyama was an American civil rights and human rights activist who worked in anti-war, anti-racist, and political prisoner solidarity movements. She became a prominent organizer in Harlem and beyond.

Quotes by Yuri Kochiyama

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.
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