Like many other people, I was saddened by the news of William Minoru Hohri’s passing. I greatly respected his achievements in organizing the forces for Japanese American redress, and his various other contributions to racial justice in the United States. I was interested to read the various memorial tributes. One element that seemed absent from […]
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OBITUARY: William Hohri
November 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
William Minoru Hohri, writer, civil rights activist and lead plaintiff in the National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) class action lawsuit, passed away on Friday, Nov. 12. He was 83. “I loved him dearly and will miss him terribly,†said wife Yuriko Katayama Hohri. “He was a good man.†Had Hohri lived to March, […]
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