The Happy Couple
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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
A Japanese Quaker Wedding in Spokane, WA
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…