A letter to Ellie Ring

ID: 4319 ~ Source: University of Washington Digital Collections
This file appears in: A Japanese Quaker Wedding in Spokane, WA

This letter by Hirabayashi to friend Ellie Ring discusses his wedding plans in the summer of 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…