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You are here: Home / Archives for Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Award

In memory of Gordon

January 12, 2012 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Gordon Hirabayashi died on Jan. 2 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he taught sociology at the University of Alberta (UA). He was 93 and had been suffering from Alzheimer’s. In 1942, the U.S. Government ordered nationwide evacuation of Japanese Americans by Executive Order 9066. The government simply called it […]

Filed Under: Obituaries, Community News Tagged With: 2012, Asian Community, Auburn High School, Canada, Esther Furugori, Executive Order, Gordon Hirabayashi, Gordon Hirabayashi Endowment Fund, Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Award, Japanese Americans, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Sharon Yuen, Stacy Nguyen, Susan Carnahan, UA, UW, United States, Vol 31 No 3 | January 14 - January 20

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