TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mochizuki,Ken
TI  - Michi challenges history: from farm girl to costume designer to relentless seeker of the truth: the life of Michi Weglyn 
SN  - 9781324015888
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Norton Young Readers, An Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Weglyn, Michi,
KW  - Japanese American women
KW  - Biography
KW  - Costume designers
KW  - United States
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
KW  - Reparations
KW  - Young adult literature
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ages: 13-18; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
N2  - "A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose activism fueled a movement for recognition of and reparations for America's World War II concentration camps. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona's Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as the wardrobe designer for some of the most popular television personalities of the '50s and early '60s. In 1968, after a televised statement by the US Attorney General that concentration camps in America never existed, Michi embarked on an eight-year solo quest through libraries and the National Archives to expose and account for the existence of the World War II camps where she and other Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Her research became a major catalyst for passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, in which the US government admitted that its treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II was wrong. Thoroughly researched and intricately told, Michi Changes History is a masterful portrayal of one woman's fight for the truth-and for justice"--
ER  -