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Author Mochizuki, Ken, 1954- author.

Title Michi challenges history : from farm girl to costume designer to relentless seeker of the truth: the life of Michi Weglyn / Ken Mochizuki.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, An Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN B WEGLYN, MICHI    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Teen  YA B WEGLYN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 162 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. 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"-- Provided by publisher
Audience Ages: 13-18 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Subject Weglyn, Michi, 1926-1999 -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Costume designers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans -- Reparations -- Juvenile literature.
Costume designers. (OCoLC)fst00880814
Japanese American women. (OCoLC)fst00981435
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Biographies.
ISBN 9781324015888 (cloth)
1324015888 (cloth)
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