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SPEAKER_01: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. This month, we're highlighting ragers, women who use their anger, often righteous though not always, to accomplish extraordinary things. Today, we're talking about a woman who channeled her rage into decades of activism for a diverse set of causes. She built community across ethnic, racial, and generational lines. Let's talk about Yuri Kochiyama.
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SPEAKER_01: Yuri was born on May 19, 1921. Her parents were well-off Japanese immigrants who had settled in San Pedro, California, where Yuri grew up living an all-American lifestyle. She was a Girl Scout, a member of the student council, and a Sunday school teacher at her church. One Sunday in 1941, Yuri was at a church service when the superintendent suddenly canceled her class. Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor. When her class heard the news, Yuri could feel their eyes on her. She was no longer just another American like them. She was separate, apart, Japanese. When Yuri got home that day, she was greeted with another shock, the FBI on her doorstep. They told Yuri that they had reason to believe her father was a Japanese spy. They had come to take him into custody. Yuri's father had just had ulcer surgery. He was weak and sick. But the FBI took him in anyway and denied him access to medical care the entire time they held him in custody. After six long weeks, they released him back to his family. He died a day later. Shortly afterwards, the U.S. government imprisoned Yuri and the rest of her family in a Japanese internment camp in Arkansas. Yuri kept a diary of her experiences there, documenting the community's anger. She also found ways to experience joy, like by organizing letter-writing campaigns to the Japanese Americans enlisted in the military. It was during this time that Yuri met Bill Kochiyama, a private in the Army. It was love at first sight. And soon after the war ended, they were married and moved to New York City, Bill's hometown. Yuri and Bill had six children together. Every Friday and Saturday, they hosted get-togethers with friends, sometimes up to 100 people packed into their small apartment. In 1960, the family moved to Harlem into the Manhattanville housing projects. There, they were surrounded by a vibrant black community. Yuri learned about the civil rights movement from her new neighbors, and she jumped in to help. She joined the Harlem Parents Committee and began agitating for better schools and an end to discrimination. She was even arrested during a protest. Yuri started inviting more activists and intellectuals to her family's weekly get-togethers. Her apartment became known as the Revolutionary Salon. Then, in 1963, Yuri met Malcolm X in a Brooklyn courthouse. She shook his hand and then told him she disagreed with his harsh stance on integration. They met later to discuss the matter further, but Yuri was the one who ended up changing her perspective. The lessons Yuri learned from Malcolm transformed her into a radical revolutionary. She began working with militant black organizations in Harlem, drawing connections between their struggle and her time as a prisoner in an internment camp. And once again, she organized letter-writing campaigns, this time for prisoners to boost morale. Yuri and Malcolm X remained friends for the rest of his life. At one point, she brought him to her apartment to meet survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings. The day Malcolm was assassinated, Yuri was there. She held his head in her hands as he died. Yuri continued fighting for radical causes for the rest of her life, working in concert with various communities across the city. In 1969, she joined Asian Americans for Action, an organization inspired by the Black Power and anti-war movements. She advocated for reparations for Japanese Americans who'd been held captive in internment camps. In 1977, she joined Puerto Rican nationalists and their takeover of the Statue of Liberty, a protest to demand the release of imprisoned activists. In 1993, Yuri's husband, Bill, died. After decades of living in the same Harlem apartment, Yuri moved to Oakland to live with her daughter. There, her activism continued. In the wake of 9-11, she spoke out against Islamophobia and racial profiling. Yuri died on June 1st, 2014. She was 93 years old. All month, we're talking about ragers. For more information, check us out on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Talk to you tomorrow. Evidence-wise, we had virtually no evidence.
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