Marion Post Wolcott

Marion Post Wolcott is best known for the more than 9,000 photographs she produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1938 to 1942.

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Hatsuye Egami

Hatsuye Egami was an Issei intellectual who wrote for Japanese American publications in California before the war. Her published assembly center diary and columns for the Gila News Courier provide a rare Issei woman’s perspective on the wartime incarceration.

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Chiye Mori

Loretta Chiye Mori was a poet and journalist who contributed regular columns and articles to numerous Southern California Japanese American publications.

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Guyo Tajiri

Guyo Tajiri (1915–2007) joined with her husband Larry Tajiri as editor and staffer of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) newspaper Pacific Citizen during World War II and the early postwar years, and kept the community informed of events through her advice columns, book reviews and reporting.

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Mary Oyama Mittwer

Mary “Mollie” Oyama Mittwer (1907–1994) was a Nisei journalist whose writing reflected many of the issues her generation faced during World War II.

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