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A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii (1882-1954)
by Kenichi Sato
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Asian American history is often relegated to times of oppression and victimhood, rather than our ingenuity to fight back-- Our pioneers overshadowed in history books. What if we had a legacy before Yuri Kochiyama, Fred Korematsu, the late and honorable Rose Ochi, pioneers who precluded the civil rights leaders that we know today?
Imagine a man who established unions for farm laborers, traveled for five years from city to city to promote race relations, and even built a hospital in response to a global pandemic, all before Chavez and King, but long-forgotten…
THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL SHIP AUGUST 2021.
Little Tokyo Historical Society, a nonprofit organization focused on documenting and preserving Japanese American history and heritage, is releasing A Rebel’s Outcry, an illustrated historical biography of civil rights leader Sei Fujii (1882 – 1954).
Little Tokyo Historical Society, a nonprofit organization focused on documenting and preserving Japanese American history and heritage, is releasing A Rebel’s Outcry, an illustrated historical biography of civil rights leader Sei Fujii (1882 – 1954).
You can read the article Sei Fujii: An Alien-American Patriot written by Sidney K. Kanazawa for the California Legal History Journal, Volume 13: 2018 HERE.
A pioneering Japanese American advocate was granted honorary membership in the State Bar by the California Supreme Court in San Francisco May 24, 63 years after his death.
Sei Fujii, a 1911 USC law school graduate, was posthumously awarded honorary admission to the State Bar of California on approval by the Supreme Court of California on May 24, 2017.