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You are here: Home / Archives for Gordon Hirabayashi

Hirabayashi Place opening celebration

November 13, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The community joined InterImCDA in the opening celebration of Hirabayashi Place on Nov. 2. The building, on 442 South Main Street, is InterIm’s newest affordable housing development with 96 studio, 1-bedroom, and 2-bedroom apartments. Director Pradeepta Upadhyay told the Northwest Asian Weekly that 15 of those units were set aside for homeless families. The ground […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2017, Gordon Hirabayashi, VOL 36 NO 46 | NOVEMBER 11 - NOVEMBER 17

Hirabayashi’s act of courage and resistance memorialized

May 29, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Members of the Metropolitan King County Council unveiled a plaque of Gordon Hirabayashi for refusing to comply with Executive Order 9066. On May 15, County Council Vice Chair Rod Dembowski unveiled a plaque honoring Hirabayashi in the County Council’s lobby, just steps away from where Hirabayashi was imprisoned for refusing to comply with the order, […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2017, Gordon Hirabayashi, Jay Hirabayashi, Rod Dembowski, VOL 36 NO 22 | MAY 27 - JUNE 2

A lesson from the past, for our future

April 7, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Japanese American Fred Korematsu (1919–2005), a Nisei, made American legal history in 1942. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, he fought against his government-mandated internment in a camp.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, Featured stories Tagged With: 2016, American Civil Liberties Union, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese American Fred Korematsu, Japanese Americans, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, Korematsu Center, Lorraine Bannai, Mexican American Studies, Middle Eastern, Min Yasui, Northwest Asian Weekly, Peter Irons, Presidential Medal, Professor Lorraine Bannai, San Leandro, Seattle University, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Tucson Unified School District, United States, VOL 35 NO 15 | APRIL 9 – APRIL 15, West Coast

Minoru Yasui awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

November 23, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

President Obama announced on Nov. 16 that Minoru “Min” Yasui will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Minoru Yasui was a civil and human rights activist best known for his U.S. Supreme Court Case questioning the constitutionality of curfews imposed on Japanese American citizens during World War II. Cases […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese Americans, Minoru Min Yasui, Minoru Yasui, Mitsuye Endo, President Clinton, President Obama, Presidential Medal, Supreme Court Case, United States, Vol 34 No 48 | November 21 - November 27

A birthday salute to an Asian American hero — Gordon Hirabayashi, An American Freedom Fighter

April 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Maria Batayola and Gary Iwamoto Northwest Asian Weekly We always wanted to have heroes and she-roes who look like us to be inspiration not only for us but also for our children.  We have them all around us, sometimes invisible, sometimes forgotten. Here is one American hero and patriot who made a tremendous difference […]

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2015, Addison Building Gallery Space, Arthur Barnett, Asian American, Camden Hall, FBI, Gary Iwomoto, Gordon Hirabayashi, Hirabayashi Coram Nobis, Hirabayashi Place, Interim Community Development Association, Japanese Americans, Kathryn Bannai, Main Street, Maria Batayola, Min Yasui, Rod Kawakami, Vol 34 No 17 | April 18 - April 24

Sakata’s play about Gordon Hirabayashi, ‘Hold These Truths’

July 18, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Laura Ohata Northwest Asian Weekly Homecoming for a Civil Rights icon Gordon Hirabayashi Imagine that it is April in 1942, and the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor only four months ago. You

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Arthur Barnett, Asian Studies, Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese Americans, Jeanne Sakata, Kathryn Bannai, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Lisa Rothe, Parker Posey, Personal Velocity, Peter Irons, Rosa Parks, Seattle, Supreme Court Case, UCLA, Union Street, Vol 33 No 30 | July 19 - July 25

1-man-show tells story of Gordon Hirabayashi

July 11, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Joel de la Fuente stars in Jeanne Sakata’s one-man show, “Hold These Truths,” inspired by the true story of University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi as he fought the U.S. government’s forcible and unconstitutional removal and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast during World War II.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, ACT, Asian Pacific American Experience, Frank Abe, Gordon Hirabayashi, Jeanne Sakata, Seattle, Stephen Sumida, Union Street, Vol 33 No 29 | July 12 - July 18, West Coast, Wing Luke Museum

Supreme Court Justice says internment ruling could happen again

April 12, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Audrey McAvoy Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii last month that the nation’s highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, but he wouldn’t be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, Avi Soifer, Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, Japanese Americans, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, United States, Vol 33 No 16 | April 12 - April 18

Hirabayashi medal comes home

February 27, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Sue Misao NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Gordon Hirabayashi’s heroic journey began at the University of Washington, where he was

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2012, Gordon Hirabayashi, Jay Hirabayashi, Judge Mary Schroeder, Lane Hirabayashi, Marion Oldenberg, President Obama, Presidential Medal, Provost Ana Mari Cauce, Roger Daniels, Sharon Yuen, Sue Misao, Susan Carnahan, UW, United States, Vol 33 No 10 | March 1 - March 7

Hirabayashi family will donate Medal of Freedom to UW

February 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Allen Library, American Ethnic Studies, Anne Jenner, Gail Nomura, Gordon Hirabayashi, Hirabayashi Collection, International Dance Festival, Jay Hirabayashi Gordon, Kane Hall, Marion Oldenburg Gordon, Pacific Northwest Curator, Presidential Medal, Professor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Psychology Department, Senior Circuit Judge, Special Collections, Susan Carnahan Gordon Hirabayashi, Tetsuden Tetsu Kashima, UW, United States, Vol 33 No 9 | February 22 - February 28

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