Jane Smith Williamson
Jane Williamson was a schoolteacher and anti-slavery activist in Ohio before she came to the Presbyterian Dakota Mission at Lac qui Parle in 1843. She spent the remaining fifty-two years of her life working with Dakota people.
Jane Williamson was a schoolteacher and anti-slavery activist in Ohio before she came to the Presbyterian Dakota Mission at Lac qui Parle in 1843. She spent the remaining fifty-two years of her life working with Dakota people.
Chizu Kitano Iiyama (1921-2020) was an activist, social worker and educator who participated in social movements such as the Japanese American Redress Movement, integration in Chicago and the treatment of Arab Americans after 9/11.
The first Japanese American not in a special category allowed to return to the West Coast from the WWII US concentration camps
Award-winning poet, dancer, activist and educator Janice Mirikitani (1942–2021) was internationally known and respected for her life-long commitment to addressing the horrors of war and for advocating against institutional racism and the enslavement of women and the poor.
Mary Tsukamoto (1915–98), a longtime educator and cultural historian, became an author and leading advocate of redress for Japanese Americans removed during World War II.
Peace activist, teacher at Manzanar, and manager of resettlement-era hostels in Chicago and New York.
Educator and author of books on Japanese Americans in Hawai’i.
Riyo Sato (1913-2009) was an artist, photographer, and an arts educator for over thirty years.
Picture bride who was a noted educator and promoter of Japanese culture in Hawai’i.
Mexican researcher, professor, essayist and literary critic