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For #RandomActsOfPoetryDay, we honor Kimi Gengo Tagawa (1903–1987), an early Nisei poet & NYC social investigator. Living in Greenwich Village, she published verse & translations bridging Japanese & American literary worlds, giving voice to her community.
A different back-to-school story: following the 1942 removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council helped incarcerated students transfer to colleges outside the military zone.
Exhibit: linktr.ee/thedmhjny
Heungshan (now Zhongshan) farmers brought centuries of Pearl River Delta know-how to the Sacramento Delta, pioneering California's Bartlett pear industry and founding Locke, America's only all-Chinese town.
#AAPIHistory #SacramentoDelta #LockeCA #ChineseAmerican #CAHistory
September 7, 2021: “When Can We Go Back to America?” by Susan H. Kamei tells the story of 120,000+ Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII through 130+ firsthand voices.
Buy: susanhkamei.com
More: quietamericans.com