Meeting Malcolm X - Yuri Kochiyama
Yuri Kochiyama, well-known civil rights activist, was incarcerated in the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. After the war, she moved to New York and became involved in a number of political causes. In this clip, she describes meeting Malcolm X.
This clip is an excerpt from Yuri Kochiyama's Densho oral history interview conducted July 21, 2009. To see the complete interview segment, visit the Densho Digital Repository (http://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1000-257-14/).
More Information:
- Learning Center: http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/
- Timeline & Key Historical Dates (Japanese American Incarcertation): http://dm.aasc.ucla.edu/iac/teach/learning-center/timeline-jai/
- Yuri Kochiyama: http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Yuri_Kochiyama/
