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PROMINENT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES


Categories of Prominent Artists, Leaders, Visionaries, Athletes and Business People Listed Below
 
  Actors Actresses Animators/Make-Up/Visual Effects  Astronauts Athletes  
  Authors, Editors, etc. Business Leaders Civil Rights Activists Comedians Community Leaders  
  Dancers/Choreographers Directors Diversity Heads Entertainment Executives Fashion Designers  
  Film Festivals Judges Inventors/Scientists Military Personnel Models  
  Newscasters Night Clubs & Promoters P.R./Publicity Photographers Playwrights  
  Poets/Spoken Word Politicians President Bush's APA Appointments Producers Radio D.J.s  
  Screenwriters Stuntmen Teachers Television Shows Visual Artists  

 

Advocates for a community's civil rights are greatly needed to identify/address the needs of people that are not properly represented and/or not deemed "important" by the general media. In this world of multiculturalism, the below-listed activists are needed to remind that the media that these multi-ethnic communities will not go away.

  • GRACE LEE BOGGS - 1st generation NYC-based Chinese American has been a speaker, writer, and movement activist primarily in Detroit's African American community for the past fifty-five years. Raised during a time when her father was not allowed to buy land because he was Chinese, she was in her twenties when she was inspired to become involved in civil rights and dedicate her life to social justice. Her autobiography, "Living For Change," is a sweeping account of her life as an untraditional radical from the end of the 1930s, through the cold war, the civil rights era, and the rise of Black Power and the Black Panthers, to the present efforts to rebuild America's crumbling urban communities.
  • NORIKO SAWADA BRIDGES FLYNN - Japanese American civil-rights activist and writer who successfully challenged Nevada's law barring mixed marriages
  • Y.C. HONG - 1st Chinese American to graduate from USC Law School, passed the bar in 1923, becoming the first Chinese American to become a certified lawyer in California. Hong's office was for years the only place that Chinese Angelenos could find immigration advice.
  • YUJI ICHIOKA - created the phrase "Asian American" and renowned Asian American historian
  • STUART ISHIMARU - he has long years of federal and community service and in the field of civil rights, including: acting staff director for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1993-94); counsel to Assistant Attorney General (1994-99) and Deputy Assistant Attorney General (1999-2001) in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • YURI KOCHIYAMA - a central figure Asian Pacific American history and the civil rights movement leader who has been featured in the documentaries "My America ... Or Honk If You Love Buddha" and "Yuri Kochiyama: A Passion for Justice," who dedicated her life to political activism, participating in issues such as nuclear disarmament, Japanese American redress and reparations, and international prisoners' rights. and had a friendship with Malcolm X. Read her interview that shares the reasons behind her passions.
  • FRED KOREMATSU - this Oakland civil rights crusader is the honorary chairman of the California Civil Rights Commission on Hate Crimes, who advises the attorney general on finding ways to improve diversity, train law enforcement officers and monitor extremist hate groups. During World War II, Korematsu's legal challenges to civilian exclusion orders helped spur the redress movement for Japanese Americans. He won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor in 1998. He died in 2005.
  • ALBERTA LEE - Dr. Lee's daughter who became an impassioned spokesperson for her father and Asian American civil rights.
  • KAREN NARASAKI - Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights as the Chairperson of its Compliance/Enforcement Committee and is Chairperson of the National Network Against Anti-Asian Violence. Before joining AAJC (aka NAPALC), Ms. Narasaki was the Washington, DC Representative for the Japanese American Citizens League. Prior to that she was a corporate attorney at Perkins Coie in Seattle, Washington. Before joining Perkins Coie, she served as a Law Clerk to Judge Harry Pregerson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles.
  • ROSE ICHI - Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights as the Chairperson of its Compliance/Enforcement Committee and is Chairperson of the National Network Against Anti-Asian Violence.
  • DANNY SEO - Internationally renown activist, author and public speaker
  • SICHAN SIV - Ambassador and Civil Rights Activist
  • L. LING-CHI WANG - an uncompromising Bay-area community activist who co-founded Chinese for Affirmative Action
  • TAKUJI YAMASHITA - Takuyamashita Yamashita was one of the century's earliest civil-rights crusaders, a prescient forerunner to the likes of Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall.
  • HELEN ZIA - is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. She is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine. Ms. Zia has been an activist in the Asian American community for many years.

 

 

 
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