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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
By MOCHIZUKI, Ken
- ISBN
- 9781324015888
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on January 1, 2023 | Middle To High School
Gr 7 Up—Mochizuki presents a biography of Michi Nishiura Weglyn, whose fight for justice and acknowledgment of wartime wrongs against Japanese American citizens demonstrates what one motivated individual can achieve in the name of right. The daughter of Japanese immigrants who worked as farmers in California, Weglyn and her family were confined in the Gila River, AZ, internment camp after Pearl Harbor. Mochizuki describes how she continued her education in the internment camp, earning accolades and recognition for her scholastic achieveme...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
