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Foreword by Opal Palmer Adisa
Avey Johnson a Black, middle-aged, middle-class widow.
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Who Was Hisaye Yamamoto? Google Doodle Celebrates Japanese American Writer
On 5/4/21 at 4:43 AM EDT
Hisaye Yamamoto, a Japanese-American short story author and journalist, is celebrated in Tuesday s Google Doodle in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Yamamoto was born on August 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, California, to Japanese immigrant parents. Her parents were from the Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan and immigrated to California where they farmed strawberries. Under the California Alien Land Law of 1913, Yamamoto s family was not allowed to own agricultural land and so they moved around as she was growing up.
In her teens, Yamamoto wrote for a daily newspaper for Japanese Californians under the name Napoleon.