By Kai Naima Williams. Illustrated by Anastasia Magloire Williams.
Kai Naima Williams – great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama – introduces one of the 20th-century’s most notable freedom fighters, Yuri Kochiyama (1921 – 2014) to the next generation of young readers, by chronicling the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri’s life and influenced her activism. From Yuri’s incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II to her participation in movements organizing for better schools in Harlem to her close friendship with Malcolm X, Yuri never wavered in her belief in the power of people – especially young people – to bring about social change. Ages 7-9.
Hardcover: 40 pp.
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Yuri Kochiyama Ornament
