PARTNER

INTERVIEW ID

ddr-densho-1000-16

NARRATOR

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

INTERVIEW TITLE

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga Interview I

00:55:52 — 9 segments

DESCRIPTION

Nisei female. Born August 5, 1924, in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento and Los Angeles. During World War II, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California, and transferred to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Washington representative and researcher for National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) and primary archival researcher for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), and the three coram nobis cases. Consultant to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exhibition. "A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the United States Constitution"; and consultant for the Justice Department's Office of Redress Administration.

(This interview was conducted at the Voices of Japanese American Redress Conference, held on the UCLA campus and sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. Because of the full conference schedule, our interviews were limited to one hour. The interviews therefore focused primarily on a single topic, namely, the narrator's role in the redress movement.)

PRODUCTION

Larry Hashima, interviewer; Glen Kitayama, interviewer; Matt Emery, videographer

PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS

• Miyazaki, Aiko

CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Densho

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