Hirabayashi in 1941
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Gordon Hirabayashi, seen here with Bill Schmoe in 1941, would become a face in the fight for Japanese civil rights.
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 Lidgerwood Evangelical Church. While the happy…