The Happy Couple

ID: 4316 ~ Source: University of Washington Digital Collections
This file appears in: A Japanese Quaker Wedding in Spokane, WA

A portrait of Hirabayashi and Schmoe on the day of their wedding, August 5, 1944.

This file appears in: A Japanese Quaker Wedding in Spokane, WA

By Anna Harbine
On a warm August day, Japanese-American pacifist and civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi made headlines, marrying his college sweetheart, Esther Schmoe, in a simple Quaker ceremony at Spokane’s Lidgerwood Evangelical Church. While the happy…