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Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn

Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn - Hardcover

by Ken Mochizuki
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ken MochizukiAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2023-03-14Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Norton Young ReadersISBN-13:9781324015888ISBN-10:1324015888UPC:9781324015888Book Category:Young Adult NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, FashionBook Topic:Social Activists, WomenSize:9.28 x 6.38 x 0.66 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCWV2VGMJD

The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the wardrobe designer for some of the most popular television personalities of the '50s and early '60s.

In 1968, after a televised statement by the US Attorney General that concentration camps in America never existed, Michi embarked on an eight-year solo quest through libraries and the National Archives to expose and account for the existence of the World War II camps where she and other Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Her research became a major catalyst for passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, in which the US government admitted that its treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II was wrong.

Thoroughly researched and intricately told, Michi Changes History is a masterful portrayal of one woman's fight for the truth--and for justice.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Norton Young ReadersISBN-13:9781324015888ISBN-10:1324015888UPC:9781324015888Book Category:Young Adult NonfictionBook Subcategory:Biography & Autobiography, FashionBook Topic:Social Activists, WomenSize:9.28 x 6.38 x 0.66 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCWV2VGMJD
Mochizuki, Ken: - Ken Mochizuki is the author of several award-winning books for young readers, most notably Baseball Saved Us. He is a well-known historian of Asian Pacific history and regularly presents to schools and universities. He lives in Seattle.
Publisher: Norton Young Readers

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