The Hirabayashi “coram nobis” case is a landmark civil rights case which exposed the racial prejudice of government officials in promulgating military orders which led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, a wave of anti-Japanese hysteria swept over the western United States. On February 19, [...]
Gordon Hirabayashi passed away at the age of 93 in Edmonton, Alberta on New Year’s Day. Hirabayashi, who taught sociology at the University of Alberta for many years, is best known as one of three Japanese Americans (Minoru Yasui and Fred Korematsu) who challenged the constitutionality of military orders that led to the evacuation of [...]
The year was 1979. Jimmy Carter was President, disco was king, and 29 year-old Alan Sugiyama established the Center for Career Alternatives (CCA). And now, after thirty-one years as the Executive Director and the public face of the CCA, Al Sugiyama has decided to step down. So why now? Sugiyama stated, “When I first started [...]
Sharon Maeda is the epitome of a community activist — passionate, outspoken, politically savvy, and tenacious. Her life has been a series of change of address cards — born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; growing up in Portland; high school and college in Seattle; with employment stops in Berkeley, Washington D.C., and New York, but always returning [...]
On September 19, 2009, the Inter*im Community Development Association (Inter*im CDA) will celebrate its 40th Anniversary at the Waterfront Marriot. Formally incorporated in 1969 as the International District Improvement Association, Inter*im is the oldest neighborhood organization in Seattle’s International District (ID). Forty years ago, the International District had deteriorated into an area of urban blight, [...]
